Regulations 

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF ASSISTANTS ON 

River and Harbor Work 



UNDER CHARGE OF COL. W. H. BIXBY 
CORPS OF ENGINEERS 
ST. LOUIS, MO., DISTRICT 



MAY 1, 1910 




WASHINGTON 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

1910 



Regulations 

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF ASSISTANTS ON 

River and Harbor Work 



UNDER CHARGE OF COL. W. H. BIXBY 
CORPS OF ENGINEERS 
ST. LOUIS, MO., DISTRICT 






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MAY 1, 1910 




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INDEX TO SECTIONS. 



Page. 

I. — Responsibility, general requirements, etc 7 

■ II. — Correspondence 9 

III.— Records 10 

IV.— Reports 11 

V. — Division of works and accounts 13 

VI. — Civil service 15 

VII. — Labor and employment 21 

VIII. — Quarters and subsistence 27 

IX.— Pay accounts 29 

X. — Procuring supplies 35 

XI. — Plant classification 38 

XII.— Property 43 

XIII.— Materials 47 

XIV. — Physical data, surveys, gauges 48 

XV. — Journeys and travel 51 

XVI .—St. Louis office 52 

XVII. — Miscellaneous 53 

Appendix A. — Subsistence 55 

B. — List of blank forms, stationery, and medicines 58 

C— Code of signals 60 

D.— Reports and other papers required of assistants 60 

E. — References to form numbers and paragraphs 61 

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Engineer Office, U. S. Army, 

Custom- House, St. Louis, Mo., May 1, 1910. 
The following regulations are established for the guidance of all 
employees under this office. 

Assistants will observe these regulations, and will require compli- 
ance therewith by all persons under their direction. 

W. H. Bixby, 
Colonel, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army. 

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EEGULATION8. 



I — Responsibility, General Requirements, Etc. 

101. Assistants. — The word "assistants" as used in these regula- 
tions includes assistant engineers, masters of steamers and dredges, 
and all others in local charge of work. 

Assistants will have sole authority upon the works committed to" 
them, subject only to the orders of the officer in charge and of those 
whom he may designate to act with his authority. 

102. Absence of officer. — During temporary absence from St. Louis 
of the officer in charge, assistants will receive instructions concerning 
their work from the principal assistant engineer. 

103. Doubt as to instructions.— In case of doubt as to the intent of 
these regulations, or of instructions given, the matter will be sub- 
mitted to the officer in charge for decision. 

104- Difficulties to be reported. — Difficulties or misunderstandings 
liable to lead to legal proceedings, will be reported promptly to the 
officer in charge, and action suspended until instructions are received, 

105. Precautions against accidents. — Assistants will see that all 
machinery and appliances in their charge are kept in good order, and 
that all needful precautions are observed to prevent accident or 
injury to emplo3 r ees and property. 

106. Reports of accidents. — Assistants will make prompt and full 
written reports to the officer in charge of the circumstances attending 
all accidents on the works or vessels in charge of this office which 
result in injury to employees or other persons, or in damage to prop- 
erty. 

Such reports will be accompanied by written and signed statements 
of eyewitnesses and of parties otherwise directly cognizant of the 
circumstances attending the accident and injuries, together with the 
addresses of all parties concerned. The statements will be so com- 
plete as to fully cover and substantiate the facts in the case should 
it become the subject of inquiry; and in the case of property, will 
include an estimate of the cost of repairing or replacing the property 
damaged. 

107. Injuries of employees. — Whenever an injury is sustained by 
any employee due to an accident occurring in the course of his 
employment on the vessels or works under charge of this office, and 
the injury is of such a nature as to prevent the employee from perform- 
ing work for one day or longer, the case will be reported by the assist- 
ant in charge of the work on Form C. A. 1, not later than the second 
day after the accident. 



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(a) Whenever any employee who lias been injured, as above indi- 
cated (par. 107), is disabled for more than fifteen days, he will be fur- 
nished by the officer in charge with a blank form for claim for com- 
pensation to injured employee (Form C. A. 4A.) for his signature ami 

the certificate of a physician, for transmittal to the Secretary of Com- 
merce and Labor. 

(b) Upon receipt of approval of the claim the officer in charge will 
notify the employee concerned, and will forward to him the nee 
forms to secure payment of the compensation during the approved 
period. 

(c) Whenever an employee, who has been reported disabled by an 
accident, returns to work or disability terminates, a report of the fact 
will be made immediately by the assistant on Form C. A. 2A. 

(d) Cases of death occurring immediately, or within one year after 
the accident, will be reported by the assistant on Form C. v. 3A, as 
soon as possible after knowledge of such death reaches the assistant. 

(e) The necessary form (C. A. 16A.) forclaim for compensation on 
account of the death of an employee from accidental injuries will be 
forwarded by the officer in charge to the claimants for their signa- 
tures. If the claim is approved by the Secretary of Commer< 
Labor the officer in charge will forward to the claimants the necessary 
forms to secure payment of tin 1 claim during tin 1 approved period. 

(/) In case of the death of any employee the assistant under whom 
he was employed will secure his effects and prepare an inventory 
thereof in duplicate and forward same to the officer in charge. The 
assistant will also notify the nearest relative of the fact of death. 

108. Whenever incapacity for work is directly attributable to the 
work upon which an employee is engaged, yet without his negligence 
or misconduct, and not the result of accident, the assistant will report 
the case upon Form C. A. 1 . 

109. Hospital service. — Seamen employed on vessels under the 
charge of the Engineer Corps of the United States Army will be 
admitted to the benefits of the Marine-Hospital Service without 
charge at stations of the first, second, and third class, upon t he \\ ritten 
request of the commanding officers of said vessels. 

The term seamen will be understood to include masters, officers, 
and crews of vessels in the service of the Engineer Department at 
Large. 

Relief stations are divided into the following classes: (Mass 1, 
United States marine hospitals; class 2, all other stations under com- 
mand of a commissioned officer; class .'!, all stations under charge of 
an acting assistant surgeon where there is a contract for the care of 
sick and disabled seamen; class 4, all other relief stations not included 
in the above classes. 

(a) Masters' certificates for sick or disabled seamen (Form 1915 
United States Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service), containing 
all the information required thereon, will be used in requesting the 
admission of "seamen" to marine hospitals. These formswillbe fur- 
nished masters of vessels by the officer in charge upon application 
therefor. 

110. Precautions against fire. — Assistants will exercise 1 special care 
against fire; every fire and light upon government plant or property 



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in their charge will be tended at frequent intervals by employees 
specially charged with that duty. All fire apparatus will be fre- 
quently inspected and tested to see that it is in good order and fit for 
immediate use (par. 1111 b to f.) 

111. Economy enjoined and experiments authorized. — The strictest 
economy consistent with efficiency in the use of labor and materials 
is enjoined upon all concerned. While no change will be made in the 
general methods of construction, without the authority of the officer 
in charge, it will be the duty of each assistant to improve details to 
obtain greater efficiency and economy. Experiments upon a small 
scale to that end are authorized. 

112. Use of public property. — In no manner will public property or 
material of any kind or the labor of public employees be applied to 
any but the actual wants of the work in progress, except in extra- 
ordinary emergencies to save life and property, winch must be reported 
to the officer m charge by letter, explaining the emergency; all con- 
trary applications are strictly prohibited, unless previously authorized 
by the officer in charge. 

(a) Loan or hire of government property or plant will not be made 
to private parties except upon special prior authority of the officer in 
charge in each case. 

113. Claims against the United States. — Employees of the Govern- 
ment are forbidden by the United States statutes to give any infor- 
mation or assistance in the prosecution or support of claims against 
the United States, or to be interested in the purchase of any claims 
against the United States within two years next after he shall have 
ceased to be an employee. 

(a) Assignments of claims. — When claims or vouchers which have 
been assigned are presented for payment the holders will be informed 
that disbursing officers have no authority to make payments to them 
as assignees, and that payments can only be made to the original 
persons to whom the money is due. 

114- Information to the public. — Information relative to government 
work will not be given to newspapers or the public nor will any data 
collected by this office be published without permission from the 
officer in charge. 

II. — Correspondence. 

201. Official communications. — All official communications to this 
office will be addressed to the engineer officer in charge. 

(a) All official communications to other superior officers will be 
forwarded through the officer in charge. 

202. Form of letters. — All official letters and reports for which 
printed blanks are not provided will be written on one side only of 
letter paper, 8 by 10? inches, which will be folded in three equal 
parts parallel to the writing. The envelope will be large enough to 
receive the letter without additional folding. 

Letters will refer to one subject only and, as will all reports, give 
the post-office address of the writer. 

203. Letters of transmittal. — Communications forwarded to the 
officer in charge, except reports, requisitions, invoices, and receipts, 
time checks and passes, will be accompanied by a letter of trans- 



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mittal, specifying distinctly each paper inclosed and noting such as 
are in duplicate. The total number of inclosures will be stated at the 
foot of the letter of transmittal. 

204. Files of letters and communications. Each assistant will keep 
a file containing every written communication received pertaining to 
the work in his charge, and a copy of each communication sent will 
be kept in an impression book or by a duplicate 

205. Telegrams. — Official telegrams to this office will be addressed 
a U. S. Engineer Office, Custom-House, St. Louis, Mo.," and. in addi- 
tion to the signature, as "Smith," they will be marked " Official Busi- 
ness, Government Rate, Collect." Official telegrams to all other 
places will be marked "Official Business, Government Kate Charge 
Engineer Office, U. S. Army, Custom- 1 louse, St. Loi'i-. Mo." In 
each case an exact copy of the entire telegram will be sent l>; next 
mail to the officer in charge, with an explanatory letter. 

206. Telephone. — The use of the long-distance telephone upon offi- 
cial business will be reported to the officer in charge in writing imme- 
diately thereafter (Form 951), stating the nature and urgency of the 
message, the name of the person to wdiom it was directed, the charges 
therefor, and whether paid or charged to this office, the latter being 
preferred. Receipts will be taken (Form 951) for messages paid by 
an assistant and will be transmitted to this office for reimbursement 
to him. 

III. — Records. 

801. List. — The following records will be kept under each assistant 
in local charge of construction work: 





Form. 


Paragraph. 




511,512.513 
201 
202 
231 
231 
722 

612,613 


302,401 

710 






710 




•501.710a 




501,1102 




1303 


7. Material received, expended, and on hand 


501,1303a 
1202 




501 








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305 




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Assistants in local charge of other parties, together with masters of 
vessels, will keep all records necessary to enable them to make the 
reports required by paragraphs 402, 403, 404, 405. 

{a) Record forms of no further use in the field will be forwarded 
periodically to the engineer depot for preservation. 

802. Journal. — Every important fact concerning each work in 
charge of an assistant will be recorded in the journal. The latter 
wdll'be kept in duplicate, on Forms Nos. 511, 512, or 513, and signed 
daily by the assistant.' One copy will be filed in the local office; the 
other will be mailed to the officer in charge as a daily report. (Par. 
401.) 



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SOS. Tinu books, etc. — For a description of items Nos. 2 to 11, inclu- 
sive, in paragraph 301, see reference paragraphs for each item. 

304- Progress map. — A progress map, scale 1 : 5,000, will be kept 
at each work. Upon it the constructions will be located as they 
progress. Tracings and sketches for reports will be made from this 
map. (Par. 402.) 

305. Xotes, drawings, etc. — All official communications, including 
maps, notes, drawings, etc., in charge of assistants, are a part of the 
records of the office, and in no respect will they be considered private 
property. They will be carefully iiled and indexed. 

306. Catalogues, etc. — Circulars, catalogues, prices current, books, 
etc., sent by dealers to assistants by reason of their connection with 
the government works, will be considered as part of the office records. 

IV. — Reports. 

401. Daily reports. — Daily reports (Forms 511, 512, 513, or 514) 
showing all the information required thereon, together with all impor- 
tant details of his work, will be forwarded without delay to this office 
by each assistant in local charge (except the masters of snag boats). 
These reports, in duplicate, will be signed by the assistant, and the 
duplicate copy will be retained by the assistant as the journal. (Par. 
302.) 

(a) When an assistant has charge of more than one working force, 
reports will be made by, the subassistant in charge of each detached 
party, one cop}^ being sent directly to this office, the other to the field 
office of the assistant. 

402. Periodical reports. — Each assistant (except masters of vessels) 
will submit a full report on the tenth, twentieth, and last day of each 
month, semiannually (December 31), and annually (June 30), showing 
in detail the progress of the work hi his local charge for the period 
covered by the report, accompanied by the following papers: 

Trimonthly: A sketch of the work, scale 1 : 5,000, for each locality, on tracing linen 
or paper 8 by 10^ inches, or folded thereto, Form 501. 

Trimonthly for end of month: (1) A table of work done at each locality, Form 502, 
paragraph 501; (2) reports of material received, Form 711, paragraph 1304; (3) report 
of subsistence, Forms 811, 812, paragraph 807. 

Semiannual and annual: (1) A table of work done at each locality, Form 502, para- 
graph 501 ; (2) a report of material, Form 503, paragraph 1304; (3) a report of service of 
plant, Form 504, paragraph 1104; (4) charts and tracings, standard size, paragraph 
304; (5) drawings of details for each locality; (6) reports of lost and broken property, 
Form 631, paragraph 1207. 

At close of season: Record of property, Forms 612, 613, paragraph 1202; report on 
condition of plant, letter, paragraph 1104b. 

Close of work at locality: Field cost of works, Form 541, paragraph 301. 

(<z) The above inclosures will be made for the periods included by 
the recmired report, except Forms Nos. 503 and 504 accompanying 
the annual report of June 30, which will be made to include the half 
year, January 1 to June 1, only and not for the entire fiscal year. 

(b) Explanatory sketches or tracings submitted by assistants for 
each month will be made from the progress map (par. 304), and will 
show soundings ta,ken at the end of the month to which the report 
pertains. All soundings will be reduced to the stage corresponding 
to standard low water (4.0 St. Louis .gauge) on the nearest gauge 



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according to table in paragraph 1402. The gauge readings at time 
of survey will also be reported, as required by paragraph 1 103. 

(c) All sketches accompanying monthly reports will be made with 
red and black ink; the former to show constructions and conditions 
during and at the close of the period covered by t he reporl . the latter 
to show construction and conditions preceding. All other maps and 
sketches accompanying reports will be made in black ink. 

id) The following symbols in the proper colors will be used: 

Projected works: Channel limits, hurdles, protection ( 

Old work in place: Hurdles — In sight =====SSS3S5 

Buried ^^^^^--.-^ 

Protection 

Work destroyed : Hurdles or protection , 

New work (in red I : Hurdles 

Protection ^A^aW.^TT^ 

Bank lines: Present survey ^-—^ ^__ 

Previous surveys with dates E°Tzl"i^H&ii^iri! 

Bar lines: Present survey ^--^- . —, ___^^ 

Previous surveys with dates, as for bank lines, 
with addition of line of dots. 

Soundings: Present survey, thus 12. 

Previous surveys, with dates underlined thus 14. 

Should additional symbols be required, their use will be explained 
by notes on the tracings. 

403. Reports from towboats. — Masters of towboats will submit the 
following reports and papers: 

Each day: Daily log and soundings. Form 512. paragraph 1 I : 

When necessary: Location by telegraph, paragraph 1108d. 

Tenth, twentieth, and last days of each mouth: Service of steamer, Form 505. 

At end of each month: Report of subsistence, Form Ml. 812, paragraph sot . 

At end of each half year. June 30, and December 31: Reporl of material. Form 50S, 
paragraph L304b; service of steamer. Form 504. paragraph L104; losl property, Form 
631, paragraph 1207. 

At close of season, December 31: Condition of steamer, letter, paragraph 1104b; 
record of property. Form (512, 613, paragraph L202. 

They will also submit to the assistant in charge of the engineer 
depot reports of plant lowed on each trip (Form 532, par. 1104a). 



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4.04- Reports from dredges. — Masters of dredges will submit all the 
reports required of assistants in charge of field work (par. 401 ; 402) 
with their mclosures, except the reports of material received (Form 
711). 

(a) Whenever a dredge is in commission, records (Forms 514 and 
515) will be kept of the performance of machinery, and filed at the 
end of each twelve-hour run for use in the daily report. (Form 513.) 

405. Reports from snagboats. — Masters of snagboats will submit 
the following reports and papers required by regulations: 

Location by telegraph, paragraph 1110. 

On the tenth, twentieth, and last clays of each month: Trimonthly copy of log, 
Form 501; trimonthly report, Form 1001. 

At end of each month: Report of subsistence, Form 811-812, paragraph 807; list of 
snags. Form 1011. 

At the end of each half year, December 31 and June 30: Lost property, Form 
631, paragraph 1207. 

At end of each calendar year: Record of property. Form 612, 613, paragraph 1202. 

At close of working season: Condition of boat, letter, paragraph 1104b. 

At end of fiscal year: Operations for year, letter. 

406. Special reports. — All assistants will report from time to time 
as follows: 

1. Difficulties and misunderstandings: Letter, paragraph 104. 

2. Injuries of property: Letter, paragraph 106. 

3. Injuries of employees: C. A. 1, etc., paragraph 107. 

4. Changes in classified service: Form 301, paragraph 602. 

5. Telegrams sent : Letter, paragraph 205. 

6. Use of long distance telephone: Form 951, paragraph 206. 

7. Changes in steamboat channel: Letter, paragraph 1109b. 

407. Forwarding reports. — Periodical and special reports and all 
other papers required by these regulations will be forwarded promptly, 
and no later than the dates designated. A record of the date of 
receipt of each communication received will be kept at this office. 
Explanation will be required for unreasonable delay in transmission 
of papers. 

408. Reports from foreman, etc. — Assistants will require from fore- 
men under their direction the daily reports necessary for informa- 
tion concerning the work, on Forms 514, 521, 522, and 523 (par. 
301, 1102 f g). 

V. — Division of Work and Accounts. 

501. Accounts required. — Assistants will distribute separately to the 
items on which used; each grade of labor in Form 231, each kind of 
material listed in paragraph 1301 in Form 723, and the service of each 
class of plant listed in paragraph 1101 in Form 231. 

Separate accounts for the expenditures of labor and material and 
the service of plant will be kept for each of the following items : 

Main office; plant (general item) ; material (general item). 

Extraordinary repairs, ordinary repairs, and operating expenses: Steamers Gen. 
J. H. Simpson and Wm. R. King; dredges Nos. 3, 4, 5, and 6. 

Extraordinary repairs and ordinary repairs: Tenders, wood or steel; barges, model 
or flat; storeboat; quarterboats; office and survey boats; piledrivers; derrick boats; 
machine-shop boats; derricks; flats, wood or steel; small boats; portable quarters; 
engineer depot ; tools and appliances; boarding outfit ; office furniture ; survey instru- 
ments. 



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Subsistence; brush, contract or open market ; piles, contract or open market ; -tune, 
United States quarry, contract or open market ; Lumber, mattress; coal. 



Work of improvement. 



Height. Length. Area 



Hurdles: Feet. 
(a) New work (that within the end limits of which no previous work- 
has been done) 

(6) Restoration or completion (rebuilding within limits formerlj at- 
tained or extending incomplete work inotherdimensions than length) 

(c) Maintenance (ordinary repairs) 

Hank protection: 

1. Mattress (low water) 

(a) New work (within the end limits of which no previous work 

has been done) 

(b) Restoration and completion (as for hurdles) 

(c) Maintenance (ordinary repairs) 

2. Paving (medium stage): 

(a) New work (within the end limits of which no previous work- 
has been done) 

(6) Restoration and completion (as for hurdles) 

(c) Maintenance (ordinary repairs) 



Lin. feet. 



Sq./eet. 



Other forms of construction, see paragraph 504 b. 


Work of improvement. 


Width. 


Length. 


Depth. 




Feet. 


Feet. 


Feet. 



























502. Expense of plant. — In the above list, each towboat and dredge 
has an individual account, and other plant has a collective account 
for all pieces of each class. 

(a) Each item of plant has its current half yearly expenses subdi- 
vided between those for "extraordinary repairs " which have increased 
the appraised value of the item, and those for "ordinary repairs" 
which include cost of care and small repairs required to keep the plant 
serviceable, and which are entirely absorbed in service charges for the 
plant at the end of the half year during which the ordinary repair was 
made. Towboats and dredges have also an account headed "operat- 
ing expenses," which includes pay of crew, coal, and other running 
expenses exclusive of repairs not made by the crew. The operating 
expense of all other plant, while in service, will be charged directly to 
the work on which used. 

(b) All items of plant service will, if possible, be charged directly 
to work or material for which used, and not to other kinds or items of 
plant. Service which can not be charged to work or materials 
together with labor and material expended for the care of plant while 
idle at the fleets or engineer depot, will therefore be charged to the 
general item "Plant." (Pars. 501, 1102 e. ) 

503. Expense of material. — The labor, plant, materials, and towage 
used in the procuring, transporting, and handling of subsistence, 
brush, stone, piles, mattress lumber, and coal will be charged to the 
material affected. The time of barges thus used will also be charged, 
and will include both the trip of the empty barge to be loaded and the 
time employed in transporting and carrying the material until un- 
loaded. (Par. 1102.) 

(a) No labor, material, or plant will be charged against rope, wire, 
nails, spikes, miscellaneous lumber, oakum, ice, cement, and miscel- 



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laneous material. Any expense of labor, material, or plant on these 
items at the depot or fleet, will be charged to the general item "Mate- 
rial." (Par. 501.) 

504- Expense of construction work. — All labor, material, and plant 
used in the field, except barges carrying material, will be charged to 
the work on which expended. Construction work will be subdivided 
as in the above list, and each expense will be applied to the proper 
division; a separate account being kept for each locality. 

(a) Indefinite items, such as "Contingencies," "Care of property," 
etc., will not be used in recording the application of expenditures. 
If there is doubt as to the proper heading, the specific application of 
the item will be reported. 

(b) Any form of construction for river regulation not named in 
paragraph 501 will be listed under the head of "Other forms of con- 
struction" in a manner conforming to that forother construction work. 

505. Name of work. — Assistants will ascertain from the officer in 
charge the exact designation of their work and locality for use in all 
reports and in the distribution of accounts relating thereto. 

VI. — Civil Service. 

601 . Positions covered by civil service. — All positions under the Engi- 
neer Department at Large, except those of unskilled labor, etc., as 
named in paragraph 603-3, are affected by civil-service rules and 
regulations, and belong to what is called the "classified service." 

602. Changes in civil service. — Assistants will report (Form 301) 
all changes among the classified civil-service employees under their 
charge at the close of the day on which changes occur. The reports 
will give the same dates, names, occupations, and rates of pay that 
are used on payrolls, as well as the address of the employees to whom 
they refer. 

(a) In case of the appointment of a person not previously employed 
by this office, assistants will also submit a personal-service card (Form 
29) filled out in accordance with the printed instructions thereon. 

603. Kinds of positions. — Positions under the Engineer Depart- 
ment at Large are of three kinds : 

1. Classified places requiring an educational test, known as "edu- 
cational positions." (Par. 603-1.) 

2. Classified places requiring apprenticeship or other special prepa- 
ration but no educational test, known as "registered positions." 
(Par. 603-2.) 

3. Unclassified positions, including all workmen and unskilled 
laborers paid at the rate of $70 per month ($2. 33 J per day) or less 
unsubsisted, or $55 per month ($1.83 J per day) or less when sub- 
sisted. (Par. 603-3.) 

603-1. Educational positions. — All appointments to educational 
positions will be made by the officer in charge. 

The positions requiring educational tests are as follows : 

(a) Assistant engineers (civil or mechanical) and superintendents 
of class 5. (Par. 604.) 

(b) Junior engineers (civil or electrical). These employees may 
perform the duties of inspectors, overseers, surveyors, hydrographers, 



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computers, draftsmen, levelmen, recorders, sextant observers, topog- 
raphers, transitmen, etc., and may also be employed in any clerical 

position. 

(c) Surveyors, including those performing the duties of I 

men, levelmen, and the like, when of class 2 or higher class. (Par. 
604.) 

(d) Draftsmen. 

(e) Engravers, lithographers, and similar positions when of class 
3 or higher class. (Par. 604.) 

(/) Clerks, including copyists, stenographers, typewriter-, and 
subclerical positions which include elevator conductors, messengers, 
skilled laborers (who perform duties of a general utility character), 
and watchmen. 

(g) Scientists, specialists, and employee- in positions not specifically 
referred to herein as of noneducational class, or excepted from classi- 
fication, will be considered of educational class, unless authority to 
class as noneducational is given. 

603-2. Registered positions. — Appointments to registered position! 
may be made by assistants, upon antecedent approval by name, of 
the officer in charge. Registered positions, though classified, require 
no educational test and include — 

(h) Superintendents of class 4 or lower (Par. 604): these positions 
are to be restricted to the few T cases in which conditions of work 
necessitate the appointment of those especially qualified by training 
and experience for the particular duty to be performed, but who have 
not the technical nor the theoretical education required for super- 
intendents of the educational class (class 5). (Par. 604.) 

(i) Inspectors and overseers of class 3 (Par. 604); these positions 
are intended, primarily, to provide for inspectors and overseers who 
have heretofore been considered as of the educational class by reason 
of the rate of pay required to secure their services, but who have not 
the theoretical training to permit of their being properly classified in 
the "junior engineer" grade. 

(j) Inspectors and overseers of class 2 (Par. 604) or lower class; 
these positions relate to duties requiring experience and special skill, 
but not necessarily technical educational training. 

(k) Foremen; including those performing duties of master laborer, 
master workman, master carpenter, and the like. 

(I) Masters, mates, pilots, steersmen, steam engineers, and similar 
positions, which in private employ require a lice use from the office of 
steamboat inspection, and applicants for these positions are required 
to have such license. 

(m) Surveyor, if of class 1 or lower (Par. 60-!). recorder-, survey- 
men, (who may perform duties of transitmen, levelmen, rodmen, 
chainmen, and the like), timekeepers, and receivers of material, 
when of Class D or lower classes. (Par. 604.) 

(n) Engravers, lithographers, transferers, shaders, and similar 
positions when in class 2 or lower. (Par. 604.) 

(o) All the mechanical trades. 

(p) All employees performing the duties of blasters, boarding 
masters, brakemen, bridge tenders, cement testers, concrete finishers, 
cranesmen, dam and valve tenders, deputy inspector-, divers, dredge 
engineers, electricians, enginemen (including all steam engineers not 
licensed), fort keepers, gardeners, gauge readers, handymen, helpers 



REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 17 

(with prefix indicating; the character of service rendered as "engi- 
neer's helper," "general mechanical helper/' etc.), janitors, leads- 
men, light keepers, linesmen, lock masters, lockmen, powder men, 
riggers, ship keepers (who perform duties of watchmen on or in con- 
nection with vessels and other floating plant), stewards, strikers, 
telegraph and telephone linemen, trackmen, truckmen, and similar 
positions, together with all other emplo3 T ees not enumerated under 
603-3 who are paid at the rate of Class C or higher (unsubsisted). 

603-3. Unclassified positions. — The unclassified service includes 
all unskilled labor employed in such positions as the following: 

Apprentices to the mechanical trades, axmen, bakers, boatmen, 
charwomen, cooks, cook's helpers, deck hands, derrick hands, dredge 
hands, drill men, drivers, floor men, hostlers, lamplighters, laun- 
dresses, oilers, sailors, scow men, stevedores, stokers, teamsters, 
waiters and weavers, together with all employees not enumerated 
under 603-1 and 603-2, who are paid at the rate of less than $70 per 
montli ($2. 33 J per day) unsubsisted, or $55 per month ($1.83 J per 
day) or less, when subsisted. 

(a) The last clause of paragraph 603-3 indicates that cooks paid 
more than $55 per month, with subsistence, are considered as classi- 
fied employees. When cooks are listed on the local register, and no 
cooks eligible on account of previous service are available, assistants 
will, if possible, select cooks from the local register for appointment to 
positions paying more than $55 a month and subsistence, and report 
their employment on Form 301, as directed in paragraph 602. 

If unregistered cooks of this class are employed, who are not eligible 
on account of previous service, a letter of explanation regarding such 
employment will be written to the officer in charge. 

When there are no cooks listed as eligible on the local register, cooks 
may be appointed without examination, and without reference to 
the pay of the position. 

604- Civil-service classification. — The classes now provided for by 
the civil-service regulations are as follows : 

Class A. — All persons receiving a salary at the rate of less than $720 per annum. 

Class B. — All persons receiving a salary at the rate of $720 per annum, but less than 
$840 per annum. 

Class C. — All persons receiving a salary at the rate of $840 per annum, but less than 
$900 per annum. 

Class D. — All persons receiving a salary at the rate of $900 per annum, but less than 
$1,000 per annum. 

Class E. — All persons receiving a salary at the rate of $1,000 per annum, but less than 
$1,200 per annum. 

Class 1. — All persons receiving a salary at the rate of $1,200 per annum, but less than 
$1,400 per annum. 

Class 2. — All persons receiving a salary at the rate of $1,400 per annum, but less than 
$1,600 per annum. 

Class 3. — All persons receiving a salary at the rate of $1,600 per annum, but less than 
$1,800 per annum. 

Class 4- — All persons receiving a salary at the rate of $1,800 per annum, but less than 
$2,000 per annum. 

Class 5. — All persons receiving a salary at the rate of $2,000 per annum, but less than 
$2,500 per annum. 

Class 6. — All persons receiving a salary at the rate of $2,500 per annum or more. 

605. Methods of making selections. — When it becomes necessary to 
engage persons for registered positions, employment will be made in 
one of the following methods, preference being given in the order 
stated herein: 

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18 REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 

1. By reduction from a higher grade of a satisfactory employee 
whose services are no longer required in the higher position. 

2. By restoration to former grade of a satisfactory employee 

who has been previously reduced to a lower grade. 

3. By reemployment from "furlough without pay" or from '"laid 
off for want of work." 

4. By promotion. 

5. By appointment from the list of eligibles prepared by the local 
board of civil service examiners for the Engineer Department at 
Large. 

6. By emergency (or temporary ) employment. 

605-1. Reductions in grade. — Persons no longer required in their 
positions, are eligible for positions in a lower grade for which they 
are qualified, and will receive preference in appointments therefor 
in the order of the highest grades for which they are eligible. When 
thus reduced to any position within the classified service, an em- 
ployee maintains his eligibility, and may be restored to the highest 
or any intermediate position previously held. 

Reductions to unclassified positions will be reported as "laid oil"' 
or ''furloughed," and service in such unclassified position does not 
maintain eligibility in the classified service. 

605-2. — Restoration to former grade. — Employees who have been 
reduced to a grade within the classified service lower than that in 
wdiich they have previously served, may be restored to their former 
grades, and reports (Form 301) therefor will read "Restoration to 
former grade," and not "reemployment." 

605-3. Reemployments. — Upon request, assistants will be fur- 
nished with a list of persons previously employed, but at the time 
"furloughed without pay," or "laid off" (for want of work), and who 
are eligible for reempWment . This list will be consulted and 
reemployments preferably made therefrom, unless there 1 are eligibles 
under paragraph 605-1-2. 

(a) A person "laid off" while serving in a lower grade than that 
in which he has previously served, may be reemployed in his highest 
grade, if eligibility^ in the higher grade has not expired. 

605-4. Promotions. — Employees serving in positions within the 
classified service lower in grade than those to which they are eligible 
may be promoted to positions up to the highest grade for which 
eligible. A change of pay without a change of grade will be reported 
as a "change in pay." 

605-5. Original appointments. — When registered positions can not 
be filled by any of the methods stated in the preceding paragraphs. 
original appointments will be made from the current list of persons 
eligible for appointment, prepared monthly by the local board of 
civil service examiners, Engineer Department at Large. 

(a) A copy of this list will be furnished upon request, and all 
original appointments will be made therefrom. 

(b) In making an appointment from the list of eligibles, selection 
will be made from the highest three in the grade required, preference 
being given to the applicant having the necessary qualifications 
for the position. If none of these are available, selection may be 
made from the next highest in grade. When the person selected is 
not one of the highest three in his grade the reason for the selection 



REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 19 

will be definitely stated (Form 301), using such terms as "Nos. 

already employed;" "Xos. declines appointment;" 'iocal 

employment:" "Special qualifications;" etc., and reciting the peculiar 
qualifications for the position possessed by the person appointed, or 
other equally definite explanation. 

(c) When employment offered to a person on the eligible list is 
not accepted, a report will be promptly submitted (Form 301), using 
such terms as "prefers not to leave present employment," "not 
found," etc., or other definite explanation. 

w/) Accompanying reports of employment (Form 301), a personal 
service card (Form 29) will be sent for each person appointed from 
the list of eligibles. This card will be signed by the person to whom 
it pertains, unless unable to write, in which ease it may be made out 
by some other person and witnessed. 

(e) Names of employees as written on their personal service cards, 
pay rolls, etc., will correspond exactly to those printed on the local 
board register or eligible list. 

605-6. Appointments, emergency. — In cases where time does not 
permit of employment according to the foregoing methods, or when 
the list is exhausted in the trades required, temporary appointments 
of persons possessing the necessary qualifications and ability (par. 
605-6-6) may be made, such appointments will be reported (Form 
301), stating the reasons therefor; but such temporary employment 
will not continue longer than may be necessary to secure registra- 
tion of the temporary employee by the local board, and under any 
circumstances will not continue longer than thirty days. 

Assistants will be held responsible for any payments made in vio- 
lation of this rule. 

(a) When emergency employees, by reason of registration, become 
eligible and are appointed, they will again be reported on Form 301, 
accompanied by a personal service card. (Form 29.) 

(b) In emergency appointments assistants will avoid the selection 
of persons unable to secure registration by the local board. 

No person is eligible to a civil-service examination — 

1. Who is not a citizen of, or does not owe allegiance to, the United 
States. 

2. Who, on the date of the examination, is under the minimum or 
over the maximum age limitation required. 

3. Who is addicted to the habitual use of intoxicating beverages 
to excess, or to the use of opium, morphine, or other narcotics. 

4. Who within one year has passed the same examination for the 
same office for which he again desires to apply. 

5. Who is enlisted in the United States Army or Navy and has not 
secured permission for his examination from the Secretary of War or 
the Secretary of the Navy. 

6. Who has been dismissed from the public service for delinquency 
or misconduct within one year preceding the date of his application. 

7. Who has made a false statement in his application, or has been 
guilty of fraud or deceit in any manner connected with his applica- 
tion or examination, or has been guilty of any crime or infamous or 
notoriously disgraceful conduct. 

8. Who has been discharged for desertion from the military or naval 
service of the United States under section 1998, Revised Statutes. 



20 REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 

9. Who has any of the following delects: [nsanitj : tuberculosis; 

paralysis; epilepsy; blindness; loss of both anus, or both legs, loss 
of arm and leg; badly crippled or deformed hands, arms, feet, or 
legs; heart disease; locomotor ataxia; cancer; Blight's disease <>r 
diabetes. Other physical delects may debar persons from exami- 
nation when such defects would render the person unlit to perform 
the duties of the position for which the ex animation is held. 

10. Who has been debarred from examination by the Civil Service 
Commission. 

11. Who is applying for a position which in private employ requires 
a license, and who can not procure such license. 

12. Who is applying for employment in a mechanical trade, and 
who has not served as an apprentice or journeyman for a reasonable 
period in the trade in question. 

13. Who has two or more members of his family already in the 
public service under the civil-service act. A "family" being those 
living under the same roof and dependent upon the same head. 

606. Medical examinations. — Medical examination- to determine 
physical condition or fitness of applicants for employment may he 
required in any case considered necessary by the officer in charge. 
Assistants will report in writing when such examination is required. 

607. Change in pay or grade. — Changes in pay or occupation will 
be reported. (Form 301.) These reports will give the exact dates 
on which the changes occur, and these dates will agree with those 
used in the pay roll. (Par. 902.) 

608. Transfers between assistants. — The transfer of civil service 
employees from one assistant to another will be reported to the 
officer in charge by each assistant. (Form 301) 

The reports will give the dates of the transfer, rates of pay, etc.. 
which will agree with the pay rolls. (Par. 709.) 

609. Assignments to different grades. — A registered employee in 
any grade will not be assigned to duty in a different grade, without 
examination by the local civil-service board. 

610. Assignments to similar duties. — A registered employee in any 
capacity may be temporarily assigned to duty in any other registered 
position, the duties of which arc similar, and for winch, no additional 
qualifications are required, but not for a period exceeding thirty days. 
Such change of duty will be reported. (Form 301.) 

611. Separation from the service. — Registered employees may be 
separated from the service 1 , as follows: (1) Furlough without pay 
and (2) laid off for want of work (when their services are no Longer 
needed); (3) by discharge; (4) resignation; (5) discharge for cause. 

611-1. Furlough without pay. — On written application therefor 
(Form 215), signed by the applicant and approved by the assistant 
under whom the applicant was last employed, a furlough without 
pay (Form 216) va-Aj be granted by the officer in charge to employ 
whose services are no longer required. 

(a) By "Furlough without pay" the recipient is recommended for 
employment, in the same grade named therein, in any department to 
which the civil-service classification applies, and lie is eligible for 
employment in any United States engineering district without 
further examination for three \c;ii> succeeding the date of bis last 
service. 



REGULATIONS FOE RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 21 

(b) The furlough will state his address, and may be issued for the 
highest grade in which the applicant lias served. 

(c) Assistants will recommend furloughs only for persons whose 
services were satisfactory and who were laid off for want of work. 

(d) Assistants upon approving and forwarding applications for 
furlough will at once report the applicants as "Furloughed." (Form 
301.) 

611-2. Laid off. — Employees whose services are no longer required, 
if not otherwise reported, will be reported (Form 301) as "Laid off 
for want of work." Reports will contain all information required 
thereon. 

(a) Employees "Laid off" will be eligible for reemployment for 
one year succeeding the date laid off, but only within the same 
engineering district. 

(b) If desired, an assistant may give to employees "Laid off" state- 
ments of their satisfactory service over his official signature. 

611-3. Resignations. — Classified employees who resign - will tender 
their resignations in writing to be forwarded to the officer in charge. 

When separated from the service by resignation they may at any 
time be restored to the eligible list by satisfactorily passing the 
required civil-service examination. 

611- 4- Discharge for cause. — Classified employees will not be dis- 
chargee! for cause without authority from the officer in charge. 
Employees may be suspended by an assistant until charges against 
them are investigated and authority is granted for their discharge. 
Such cases will be reported (Form 301), accompanied by a letter giv- 
ing in detail the causes for suspension. 

(a) Classified employees discharged for cause will not be rein- 
stated on the eligible list within one year after discharge, and they 
will not be reemployed except by special authority of the officer in 
charge. 

612. Instruction of civil-service applicants prohibited. — Employees 
of the United States shall not, directly or indirectly, instruct or be 
concerned in any manner in the instruction of any persons or classes 
of persons with a view to their special preparation for the examina- 
tion of the United States Civil Service Commission. 

The fact that any employee is found so engaged shall be considered 
sufficient cause for his removal from the service. 

(a) The above provision also prohibits employees from being con- 
cerned financially or otherwise in any school or institution claiming 
to give instruction along the lines of civil-service examinations. 

VII. — Labor and Employment. 

701. Authority to employ. — Authority will be obtained by assist- 
ants from the officer in charge for the employment of all persons, 
with their grades and rates of pay. 

(a) This authority will be antecedent to appoint to positions 
within the classified civil service (par. 601); the names of the persons 
to be appointed, if possible, will be stated in the application. 

702. Grades of employees. — The grades or occupations designated 
in requests for authority to employ will be confined to those named 
in paragraph 603. They will indicate as closely as possible the duties 
of the employee and will be strictly conformed to on records and pay- 
rolls. 



22 REGULATIONS FOR EIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 

(a) Employments which are included under a general designation, 
such as "junior engineer," "enginemen," and the like, should be 
explained by stating the kind of duty to be performed, as junior 
engineer (inspector), enginemen (locomotive engineer), engineman 

(stationary engineer ) . 

(6) The grade of steam engineer will apply only to employment on 

self-propelling vessels; other engines and boilers will be tended by 
"enginemen." 

703. Selection of employees. — In selecting employees in the classi- 
fied service assistants will he governed by the civil-service rules. 
(Par. 605.) Upon request they will be furnished a list of persons 
eligible for employment by reason of former service (par. 605-3 l and 
also with an eligible list or local register of applicants examined and 
graded by the local board of civil-service examiners. (Par. ' 

(a) For unclassified positions preference will be given as far as 
possible to .those previously employed whose services were satisfac- 
tory. This will include soldiers and sailors honorably discharged 
from the service. 

704- Licenses. — Persons employed as masters, pilots, steersmen, 
mates of towboats, steam engineers, and enginemen in charge d steam 
boilers will be required to keep in force their licenses, which will be 
inspected by the assistant under whom they are employed; except 
that stationary boilers not exceeding 50 horsepower may be tended 
by unlicensed enginemen or stokers, under the supervision of a licensed 
engineer, provided authority has been previously obtained for such 
arrangement from the officer in charge. 

705. Vaccination. — During the prevalence of smallpox in the vicin- 
ity of the work, or in St. Louis, no person to whom it is proposed to 
furnish subsistence and quarters will be employed until he shall pre- 
sent a certificate from a reputable physician of successful vaccination 
for smallpox within one year next preceding the date of his proposed 
employment, or can show satisfactory evidence of successful vaccina- 
tion, which evidence will be recorded. 

Physicians' certificates will be filed by the assistant employing, to 
be returned to the employees upon their leaving the service. 

706. Tuberculosis. — No person will be employed who appears to 
be suffering from tuberculosis unless he shall furnish a certificate 
from a reputable physician or the director of a government labora- 
tory showing that he is free from the disease. 

(a) The attention of assistants is called to the forms prepared by 
the committee on prevention of tuberculosis in government buildings. 
Assistants will furnish each person in the Engineer Department at 
Large, who is employed in office or workshop, with a copy of form 1 ; 
and Forms 2 and 3 will be conspicuously posted in every office, work- 
shop, and government boat under the Engineer Department at Large. 

707. Contracts of employment. -Each employee before beginning 
work will sign an agreement card (Form 213) containing the conditions 
under which he is employed, the class of labor to which he belongs, 
with reference to Sundays, holidays, and half holiday on Saturday in 
the months of July, August, and September, his grade in the service, 
name of foreman, method of payment, and his own address and that 
of the person to be notified in case of sickness or injury. These cards 
will be kept by the assistant until called for by the officer in charge, 
except that the cards of employees who will come to the Si. Louis 



REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 23 

office for their pay will be forwarded with the time checks or rolls upon 
which their names appear. 

70S. Report of employment. — Assistants will report promptly (Form 
301) every employment in the classified service (par. 602), and 1'or 
each original appointment will submit a personal-service card. (Form 
29: par. 605-5(d).) 

709. Transfer of employees. — Assistants transferring employees to 
other assistants will, unless otherwise directed, enter the time of the 
transferred employees on the monthly rolls for the amounts due at the 
time of the transfer, and will notify the assistant to whom the em- 
ployees are transferred of the names, occupations, time employed, 
inclusive dates of service performed by the employee during the 
month, rate of pay, amount due, and method of payment proposed. 

(a) The transfer of all civil-service employees will be at once 
reported (Form 301), as required by paragraphs 602-608. 

710. Records of labor. — The time of each employee will be entered 
daily by the foreman under whom employed in a time book (Form 
201), and this record, as often as practicable, will be transferred to 
the record (Form 202) in the office of the assistant in local charge. 

(a) A daily record (Form 231) will also be kept showing the total 
number of days of each kind of labor devoted to each kind of work as 
given in paragraph 501. The total of this distribution for the month 
will check with the payroll. (Par. 902.) 

(b) The individual totals will be made up from both the foreman 
and office records separatelv, and the results compared for use on the 
time roll. (Par. 902.) 

(c) Each page in Form 202 will be signed by the timekeeper and 
the assistant in local charge, and Form 201 will be signed monthly by 
the foreman keeping it. 

711. Length of working days. — Eight hours constitute a full day's 
work for all laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed directly by 
this office or on behalf of the United States, except in cases of 
"extraordinary emergency." This rule does not extend to officers 
and crews of steam vessels, or to persons employed in the work of 
dredging and snagging, or to cooks, cooks' helpers, and such others 
as may be considered neither mechanics nor laborers. 

(a) An "extraordinary emergency" is an occurrence that can not 
be foreseen, such as might be necessary for saving life or property, 
and not cases which depend for their emergency solely upon econom- 
ical methods of work or importance of rapid construction. 

Qb) Extraordinary emergencies will be reported as soon thereafter 
as practicable, with statements of the names, occupation, rate of pay, 
and time made by each emploA^ee who performed more than eight 
hours' service in any calendar day and who may be entitled to extra 
pay therefor. 

(c) Assistants will allow such employees who serve overtime during 
emergencies the ordinary rate of pay for eight hours' service, and a 
double rate of pay for all time in excess of eight hours for each calendar 

(d) The time of employees will be stated on a separate line of time 
and pay rolls for the time made under each rate of pay. (Par. 902b.) 

(e) Assistants in charge of work under contract will also report to 
the officer in charge each and every case in which contractors require 
or permit laborers or mechanics to work over eight hours per day. 



24 REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 

(/) The compensation to be paid to "employees who arc paid days' 

wages for days work" shall be such that the amount of money they 
receive for each eight hours' work shall not be less in amount than the 
sum that is paid for a lull day's work, for labor of the same kind and 
quality, in the section of country in which the constructiona are being 
carried on. 

712. Work on Sundays and holidays. — The employees of the Engi- 
neer Department at Large will he divided into two classes with respect 
to work on Sundays and holidays; and all will he notified before 
beginning work with respect to the class of labor to which they belong, 
and agreements to that effect will be made a part of their employment 
cards (Form 213): 

Class 1. All employees the nature of whose duties renders their 
services necessary every day, such as watchmen and ship keepers on 
vessels, lock tenders, cooks and waiters, crews of vessels, inspectors 
of work under existing contracts, engineers and firemen of boilers on 
which steam is carried day and night, and others having like duties 
belong to class 1. 

Class 2. Includes laborers, mechanics, and all other employe - not 
in class 1. 

713. Sunday work. — No work will be required on Sunday except 
from employees belonging to class 1 whose services are actually needed, 
and such Sunday work will be divided as much as possible in shorter 
watches between the employees of the same grade. 

Employees of class 1 will perform their regular duties when neces- 
sary on Sundays, without extra compensation therefor. 

(a) In cases of "extraordinary emergency" (par. 711a) necessitat- 
ing the services on Sunday of employees belonging t'> class 2, they will 
be paid for their services at the rate of one and one-half limes the 
regular rate for time not exceeding eight hours, and at double the 
usual rate for time over eight hours, payment to be made as described 
in paragraph 711c. 

714- Holidays. — Work, other than that described in paragraph 712 
as necessary for class 1, will not be required of employees on the 
following days: January 1 (New Year's Day), February 22 (Wash- 
ington's Birthday), May 30 (Decoration Day), Jul ! ( Independence 
Day), first Monday in September (Labor Da; ), Thanksgiving Day, 
December 25 (Christmas Day). 

(a) When any of the above holidays fall on Sunday the following 
Monday will be observed as the legal holiday, or, in its stead, the day 
fixed by the law of the State in which the work is in progress. 

(b) All employees regularly and continuously employed will be 
allowed full time and pay for holidays. 

715. Saturday half holidays. — On Saturdays during July. August, 
and September four hours' labor will constitute a day's work for 
mechanics, laborers, and others regularly and continuously employed 
in the service of the Engineer Department at Large, except for 
employees belonging to class 1, who will perform their regular duties 
when necessary on Saturday afternoons during the months named 
without extra compensation therefor. 

All other employees are entitled to the Saturday half holiday and 
to a full day's pay for four hours' work performed on that day during 
those months. 



EEGULATIONS FOB EIVEE AND HAEBOE WOEK. 25 

(a) Each employee who works for a fractional part of four hours 
on a Saturday during the months named will be entitled to such 
proportion of a full day's pay as the time actually worked bears to 
four hours. If an employee does no work on Saturdays he is not 
entitled to any part of the day's pay. 

(b) In cases of emergency rendering necessary the services of any 
of the employees of class 2 for more than four hours on Saturdays 
during July, August, and September, they will be paid for such extra 
services at the regular rate, e. g., if the rate of pay for such employee 
be $4 per day, he shall receive $4 for the four hours' work and 50 
cents per hour for each hour additional, or $6 for eight hours' work 
on Saturday. 

Assistants will report all such cases of emergency to the officer in 
charge as soon as possible, antecedent authority therefor being 
obtained, if practicable. 

(c) The time rolls for July, August, and September will contain the 
certificates of assistants or others as to the allowance of time for 
work on Saturdays, in accordance with the requirements of the above 
regulations. 

id) The observance of all holidays and half holidays will be stated 
in the text of assistants' daily reports, Form 511, 512, or 513. 

716. Leaves of absence. — Leaves of absence with pay will be granted 
only by the officer in charge. 

(a) Clerks and other employees of the several departments at large 
and military departments under the jurisdiction of the War Depart- 
ment, who are regularly and continuously employed, may be granted 
thirty days' leave with pay in any calendar year when to grant such 
leave will not cause embarrassment or delay in the conduct of the 
public service. 

(b) Persons applying for a leave of absence with pay will not be 
considered as "regularly and continuously" employed, unless they 
have performed at least twelve months' service within the two 
calendar years preceding the application. The time of an employee 
while f urloughed or laid off for want of work will be counted as employ- 
ment for not to exceed six months of the twelve months above 
required. 

(c) Leaves of absence with pay can not be given employees working 
at a fixed rate of pay per day or hour nor to employees working at 
piecework. 

(d) Requests for leaves of absence with pay will be submitted in 
writing to the officer in charge upon Form No. 214 through the 
assistants in local charge, who will indorse their recommendations 
thereon. Such request will be made far enough in advance to permit 
the return of approval or disapproval to the applicant before the 
anterior date of the leave. Assumption of approval will not be 
anticipated or acted upon. 

(e) Pay will be allowed also in case an employee is absent because 
his presence will jeopardize the health of his fellow-employees, or 
when an employee is unavoidably absent from duty by reason of 
personal illness; provided that the period of such absence, added to 
all previous periods of absence with pay during the calendar year, 
shall not exceed sixty daj's in that year, and provided that the absence 
is accounted for to the satisfaction of the proper officer by a personal 
certificate of the employee and the certificate of the attending 
physician. 



26 REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 

(/) Sundays and days declared public holiday s In law or executive 
order will be charged in all cases of absence, except when included in 
a period of annual leave. 

717. Soliciting increase of pay. — The following order of the IVoi- 
dent is published for the information and guidance of all concerned: 

All officers and employees of the United States, of every description, serving in or 
under any of the executive departments, and whether bo Berving in or out of Wash- 
ington, are hereby forbidden, either directly or indirectly, individually, or through 
associations, to solicit an increase of pay, or to influence in their own interesl any other 
legislation whatever either before Congress or its committees or in other way. .-ave 
through the heads of the departments in or under which they serve, on penalty of 
dismissal from the government service. 

718. Gifts. — The offer or acceptance of gifts from employees or 
officials to their superiors in rank is prohibited. 

719. Political activity. — Persons in the classified civil service of the 
United States, while retaining the right to vote as they please and 
to express privately their opinions on all political subjects, will take 
no active part in political management or in political campaigns. 

The following forms of activity have been held to be forbidden by 
the above provision : 

Service on political committees; service as delegates to county, 
state, or district conventions of a political party, although it was 
understood that the employees were not "to take or use any political 
activity in going to these conventions, or otherwise violate the civil- 
service rules;" continued political activity and leadership; the pub- 
lication of a newspaper in the interests of a political party: holding 
office in a club which takes active part in political campaigns and 
management; the circulation of petitions having a political object; 
service as a commissioner of election in a community where it was 
notorious that a commissioner of election must be an active politi- 
cian; accepting nomination for a political of lice with intention of 
resigning from the competitive service if elected: recommendation by 
clerks and carriers of a person to be postmaster; activity in local- 
option campaigns; service as inspector of election. 

720. Political coercion. — No person in the classified civil service has 
any right to use his olhcial authority or influence to coerce the political 
action of any person or body. 

(a) No person in the executive civil service shall use his official 
authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with an election 
or affecting the result thereof. 

(6) No person in the public service is under any obligations t<> 
contribute to any political fund or to render any political service, and 
he will not be removed or otherwise prejudiced for refusing to do so. 

721. Political assessments. — The following are provisions of the 
civil-service act : 

Sec. 11. Xo Senator, or Representative, or Territorial Delegate of the Congress, or 
Senator, Representative, or Delegate-elect, or any officer or employee ^\ cither of said 
Houses, and no executive, judicial, military, or naval officer of the United States, and 
no clerk or employee of any department, branch, or bureau of the executive, judicial. 
or military or naval service of the United States, shall, directly or indirectly, solicit 
or receive, or be in any manner concerned in soliciting or receiving, any assessment, 
subscription, or contribution for any political purpose whatever from any officer, clerk, 
or employee of the United States,' or any department, branch, or bureau thereof, or 
from any person receiving any salary or compensation from moneys derived from tin- 
Treasury of the United States. 



REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 27 

Sec. 12. No prison shall, in any room or building occupied in the discharge of 
official duties by any officer or employee of the United States mentioned in this act, 
or in any navy-yard, fort, or arsenal, solicit in any manner whatever, or receive any 
contribution of money or any other thing of value for any political purpose whatever. 

In the case of U. S. v. Edward S. Thayer, the Supreme Court, on 
March 0, 1908, held that solicitation by letter or circular addressed 
and delivered by mail or otherwise to an officer or employee of the 
United States at the office or building in which he is employed in the 
discharge of his official duties is a solicitation "in a room or building," 
etc., within the meaning of section 12 of the civil-service act, the 
solicitation taking place where the letter was received. 

Sec. 13. No officer or employee of the United States mentioned in this act shall 
discharge, or promote, or degrade, or in any manner change the official rank or com- 
pensation of any other officer or employee, or promise or threaten so to do, for giving 
or withholding or neglecting to make any contribution of money or other valuable 
thing for any political purpose. 

Sec. 14. No officer, clerk, or other person in the service of the United States shall, 
directly or indirectly, give or hand over to any other officer, clerk, or person in the 
service of the United States, or to any Senator, or Member of the House of Representa- 
tives, or Territorial Delegate any money or other valuable thing on account of or to be 
applied to the promotion of any political object whatever. 

Sec. 15. Any person who shall be guilty of violating any provision of the four fore- 
going sections shall be deemed guilty oi* a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction 
thereof, be punished by a fine not to exceed five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment 
for a term not exceeding three years, or by such fine and imprisonment both, in the 
discretion of the court. 

722. Office holding prohibited. — Employees are not to accept or 
hold any office under any state or territorial government, or under the 
charter or ordinances of any municipal corporation. 

They are prohibited from holding the office of alderman or common 
councilman in a city, or a town councilman of a town or village, or of 
appointments under city, town, or village governments. 

This prohibition does not apply to mechanics and laborers employed 
by the day, but it does apply to master workmen and others who hold 
appointments, whether for a fixed time or at the pleasure of the 
appointing power. 

Employees are not prohibited from holding offices as justices of the 
peace, notaries public, commissioners to acknowledge deeds, positions 
on boards of education, positions on school committees, positions in 
public libraries, positions in religious or eleemosynary institutions, 
nor from accepting commissions as officers of state militia. 

VIII. — Quarters and Subsistence. 

80 1. Subsistence and quarters restricted. — No persons other than 
authorized employees will receive subsistence or be domiciled upon 
any vessel or in any quarters belonging to the United States, except 
with express permission of the officer in charge. 

802. Assignment to quarters. — Upon employment, the signature and 
address of each employee will be taken (Form 213) and filed for refer- 
ence (par. 707), and to each employee to whom subsistence and 
quarters are to be furnished a ticket (Form 822) will be issued assign- 
ing him to quarters, on which the bunk to be occupied will be desig- 
nated by the steward or other person in charge. 

803. Diagram of quarters. — Each steward, or other person in 
charge, will keep a diagram (Form 821) of the quarters under his 



28 REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 

charge always posted and subject to inspection, upon which will 
appear all the information called for thereon. 

804- Requisitions. — Stewards will make requisitions in triplicate 
for subsistence stores (Forms 801, 802), the quantities called for being 
carefully calculated by the number of men to be subsisted, and not 
to be in excess of their needs. The quantities allowed to 1 ,000 rations 
are printed on the forms; these are average quantities consumed 
during past years, and are considered all that can be used without 
waste. The usual sizes of packages in which stores are purchased 
are also indicated, with the seasons during which fruits and vegetables 
will be used. 

(a) Articles listed on Form 802 will be issued only to office boats, 
survey parties, steamers, and dredges. 

(b) Requisitions for perishable subsistence stores will be 

for periods of one calendar week, estimating from the morning suc- 
ceeding the usual delivery day. 

Semiperishable and very bulky stores, such as (lour, potatoes, but- 
terine, etc., will be ordered every two weeks. All other articles will 
be ordered but once a month, preferably, for delivery on a regular issue 
day falling between the 10th and 25th of the month. 

(c) Assistants will examine all requisitions carefully, will see that 
they are timely, that necessary stores are asked for, and that the 
quantities are not in excess of what may be consumed without loss. 

(d) After examination and certification by the assistant, requisi- 
tions will be forwarded to the assistant in charge of the engineer 
depot, so as to reach him not later than three working days before 
the earliest day on which any part of the stores are to be shipped. 

(e) One copy of the requisition (the receipt), after being signed 
by the master or steward of the boat on which the stores are shipped, 
will be retained at the depot, one copy (the invoice), after being 
signed by the steward who finally receives the stores, will be retained 
by the boat, and the third (the requisition), will be left with the 
steward under whom the stores are to be used. 

(/) The assistant in charge at the engineer depot will not issue sub- 
sistence or other supplies of any kind in advance of requisitions, 
except in case of an emergency, to be followed by a requisition. 

(g) When no subsistence stores are required by a party in the field 
on the regular issue day, a requisition (Form SOI I so stating will be 
forwarded to the engineer depot at the usual time. 

(h) Requisitions for subsistence will state 1 the quantities desired of 
meats, ice, and vegetables plainly, or definitely state that none of these 
stores are required. 

805. Issue of subsistence. — The regular issue days for subsistence 
stores will be Wednesday of each week, but perishable stores will be 
delivered semiweekly upon requisition, when on account of hot 
weather or for other reasons, a semiweekly delivery is necessary. In 
this case the amounts desired at each delivery will be noted on the 
requisition. 

806. Field 'purchases. Assistants, upon antecedent request ami 
approval thereof, may purchase in the held eggs, milk, fresh vegeta- 
bles, and other stores, whenever local prices of such articles are below 
those of the current contracts or agreements therefor at St. Louis, 
or whenever such stores can not be conveniently procured from St. 
Louis. Except in case of an emergency, such purchases will be 



REGULATIONS FOE BIVEE AND HAEBOE WORK. 29 

made only after proposals have been invited and bids opened in the 
regular method prescribed. (Pars. 1003-1004.) 

807. Rt ports ofsubsisttiici . — At the end of each month each steward 
will render to the assistant a separate report (Form 811, 812) for 
each kitchen and set of quarters in his charge, giving all the informa- 
tion upon the form for each article of food to be accounted for, and 
in general for the number and cost of rations served. 

The average cost of rations furnished subsisted employees will not 
exceed 50 cents per day including services of cooks and waiters. 

(a) Assistants will submit these reports to the officer in charge 
not later than the 10th of the month following that to which they 
pertain. The reports will be subsequently returned to the assistant. 

(b) The assistant will charge each division of his work with the 
number of rations consumed in connection therewith. (Par. 501.) 

808. Duties of stewards. — Stewards will be held responsible to the 
assistant under whom the)' are employed for the proper preparation 
and service of food; for the timely procurement of supplies; for the 
good order and cleanliness of the sleeping quarters, mess room, and 
kitchens, and for the preservation of property and subsistence stores. 

(a) Stewards will examine stores on delivery; will see that the 
quantities, weights, and qualities agree with the invoices and the 
specifications for the articles, and that they are properly cared for. 

(b) Stewards will return all empty boxes, barrels, sacks, jugs, 
demijohns, cans, chicken coops, packages, etc., to the engineer 
depot, as soon as possible. 

809. Supervision by assistants. — Assistants will make frequent 
inspection of the quarters and mess rooms under their charge, and 
will see that they are clean, that the food is abundant, of good quality, 
well served, and without waste. Assistants will also see that the 
stores and supplies are well kept, and that whatever of them can not 
be used by their own party, are transferred in good condition to 
another assistant who can use them, or to the engineer depot at St. 
Louis. 

810. Laundry work. — Assistants in charge of quarters for which 
no laundress is employed will have all laundry work done in St. 
Louis. Articles sent to the engineer depot to be laundered will be 
shipped on United States steamers, if possible, in the laundry boxes 
furnished for that purpose. Laundry lists (Form 641) will be made 
for each box shipped. One copy will be retained by the assistant 
shipping the articles, the other two will be sent in the laundry box, 
one to be retained at the depot, the other to accompany the articles 
to the laundry and back to original shipper. 

IX. — Pay Accounts. 

901. Payrolls. — All pay rolls (Forms 11, 12 E. D.), except those 
for time checks and nonpayments, and all time sheets (Form 203) 
will be made in the local office to which they pertain. 

(a) No labor, other than that for personal service, will be paid 
on rolls. Labor of any other kind will be reported to the officer in 
charge at the end of each month on duplicate statements in the 
form of bills. (Par. 919.) 

902. Deteiils of time rolls. — The details of the time sheets will be 
taken from the time book (Form 202), after the latter has been care- 



30 REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 

fully checked and compared with the totals of the foreman's time 

boo*k. (Form 201 : par. 710.) 

(a) The names, occupations, dates, and rates of pay on the time 
sheet will correspond exactly with those authorized by the olii.er 
in charge (par. 701). and with the report of civil-service changes. 
(Par. 602.) 

(b) The time of employees, who have served in more than one 
capacity or at different rates of pay in the same month, will he stated 
on the same roll but on separate lines for each occupation and rate. 
The amounts due each employee, especially of those who served at 
different localities, will be checked carefully, so that the total time 
allowed any employee will not exceed the actual time of service ren- 
dered in any month. 

(c) Where monthly employees are separated from the service, or 
transferred to another assistant, on an intermediate day of the 
month, the date and method of separation, or the assistant to whom 
transferred, should be shown by footnote on time roll, as " Laid oil," 
"Furloughed," ''Transferred to." etc. 

(d) When applicable, the following rules for the computation of 
time in payment for services will be observed: 

1. For any full calendar month's service, at a stipulated monthly 
rate of compensation, payment will be made at such stipulated rate 
without regard to the number of days in that month. 

2. When service commences on an intermediate day of the month, 
thirty days will be assumed as the length of the month whatever he 
the number of days therein. 

3. When the service terminates on an intermediate day of the 
month, the actual number of days during which service was rendered 
in that calendar month will be allowed. 

4. When the service embraces two or more months or parts of 
months but one fraction will be made, thus: From September 21 to 
November 25, inclusive, will be calculated — September 21 to Octo- 
ber 20, inclusive, one month; from October 21 to November 20, in- 
clusive, one month: from November 21 to 25, inclusive, five days, 
making the time allowed two months and five days. 

5. When two fractions of months occur and both are less than a 
whole month, as from August 21 to September 10, the time will he 
determined thus: August 21 to 30, inclusive (ignoring the 31st). ten 
days; from September 1 to 10, inclusive, ten days: making the time 
allowed twenty days. 

6. Service commencing in February will be calculated as though 
the month contained thirty days, thus: From February 21 t" 28 
(or 29), inclusive, ten days. When the service commences on the 
28th dav of that month, three days will he allowed, and if on the 
29th. two days. 

7. If service commences on the 31s1 day of any month, payment 
will not be made for that day. 

8. For commutation of subsistence and for services of persons 
employed at a per diem rate payment will he made for the actual 
number of days. 

9. When services are rendered from one given date to another, 
the account will state clearly whether both dates are included. 

10. In computing the wages of persons employed at a per diem 
allowance the day on which service begins and the day on which 
it ends will be allowed in the computation. 



REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 31 

11. Unauthorized absence on the 31st day of a month results in 
the loss of one day's pay. 

(e) Employees who are paid day's wages for day's work shall be 
hired by the day or hour, but in every case the day shall consist of 
eight hours only, and in the preparation of the pay rolls the number 
of days in a month worked by any employee, as above, shall be 
determined (in the case where he is hired by the hour) by dividing 
the total number of hours worked in the month by eight. 

(/) The details of the time sheets, especially the amounts due, will 
be "carefully checked before entering on the pay rolls. 

903. Details of pay rolls. — All pay rolls will be made in duplicate. 
Great care will be exercised in filling in the items on pa} T rolls, espe- 
cially the amounts due. All figures will be plain and neat, and com- 
pared carefully with those on the time sheets. 

(a) Employees subsisted by the Government during the month will 
be designated by a mark "x," opposite their names on the left-hand 
margin of each pay roll and nonpayment time sheet. 

904- Erasures. — Erasures on pay rolls will be avoided as far as 
possible. Should a change be required in the figures of a pay roll 
to be paid by checks, the entire item will be ruled out with red ink 
and the correct entry made on another line. If erasure be necessary 
on a pay roll paid in cash, the entire item including signature will 
be ruled out with red ink, notation of nonpayment shall be entered 
opposite thereto, and correct entry made on another line to be signed 
by the payee. 

905. Signatures. — No signatures will be taken on rolls to be p-eid 
by individual checks. On cash-paid rolls the original sheet only will 
be signed by the employees. The signature of each employee will 
be exactly like those he has previously made. 

(a) Particular attention will be paid to the signatures of civil- 
service employees. When they sign pay rolls and other papers, their 
signatures will correspond exactly to those on their applications to 
the local board and as printed in the local board register. 

(b) Illegible signatures and those made by "x" will be witnessed, 
when practicable, by the timekeeper, or by a person other than the 
assistant in local charge. 

(c) An employee once signing his name to a pay roll or voucher 
must continue to do so thereafter, unless prevented by sufficient 
cause. If so prevented, a certificate in duplicate, stating the cause, 
signed by some one familiar with the facts, will be forwarded with the 
rolls. 

(d) Obtaining signatures to blank vouchers and pay rolls is strictly 
prohibited. 

906. Certificates. — As his certificate to the correctness of the roll, 
the assistant will write his name and title on both the original and 
duplicate copy of each pay roll, below and about one inch to the 
right of the printed certificate thereon. 

(a) On service vouchers (Form 8b and 8c, Engineer Department) 
forwarded to the officer in charge for payment (par. 913), the name 
and title of the assistant under whom the service was performed will 
be written immediately to the left of the signature of the employee. 

907. Forwarding rolls. — Pay rolls and time rolls will not be folded 
for transmittal, but will be rolled with the writing outside, and will 
be forwarded in mailing tubes furnished for the purpose. If mailing 
tubes are not on hand the rolls will be securely wrapped on suitable 



32 REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 

wooden rollers, care being taken that the outer cover may be removed 
without injury to the rolls. 

(a) All cash-paid rolls will be transmitted as soon as filled. They 
may be sent either by registered mail or by a reliable employee 
coming direct to the St. Louis office. If sent by mail, the original 
signed copy of the roll with its time sheet will be inclosed in the 
registered package and the duplicate copy of the roll will be sent 
by regular mail. Stamps for registration will he furnished on 
requisition. 

(b) The regular monthly rolls will be forwarded to the officer in 
charge, to arrive at the St. Louis office as soon as possible alter t la- 
end of the month to which they pertain. 

908. Time roll of time checks issued. — At the end of the month, all 
time checks (Form 212) issued by an assistant during the month 
(par. 915) will be reported with their numbers upon a separate time 
sheet, which will be conspicuously marked "Time checks. 

909. Time roll jor nonjiayments. — At the end of the month assist- 
ants will report upon a separate time sheet, conspicuously marked 
"nonpayment," all employees who are not on the regular monthly 
rolls, or who have not been paid in cash, or given time checks for 
amounts due. "Nonpayment" time sheets will be restricted, if 
possible, to the very few cases of amounts due deceased employees. 

(a) All nonpayment time sheets will be accompanied by the 
agreement cards (Form 213, par. 707) of all the employees thereon. 

910. Return of employees. — The consolidated return of employees 
(Form 204) will be forwarded with the letter transmitting monthly 
payrolls. It will include all persons employed during the month, 
and its amount will agree with the sum total of the regular rolls, cash 
paid rolls, nonpayment sheet, and time checks issued. 

The number of employees for any grade will be the total number of 
different individuals who have performed service in that grade dur- 
ing the month. 

911. Payment of monthly rolls. — Monthly pay rolls will be paid by 
individual checks or by cash, as may be directed by the officer in 
charge. 

(a) If payments are to be made by individual cheeks, the checks 
will be. sent to the assistant to be handed to the persons to whom 
due (par. 918), who will receipt therefor (Form 222) in the same order 
as on the pay roll. The assistant will retain a duplicate copy of these 
receipts, or will take signatures in copying ink and retain a press copy 
thereof. When all checks have been distributed, the receipt list will 
be signed by the assistant and forwarded to the officer in charge. 
Should any of the checks remain undelivered after a reasonable time, 
the assistant will enter the item numbers for which checks have not 
been delivered after the word "receipt " on the receipt list (Form 222). 
and will forward this receipt to the officer in charge, together with 
the checks remaining undelivered, by messenger or registered letter, 
stating the serial numbers of the clucks inclosed, and giving all 
information possible as to the location of the persons to whom the 
checks are due. 

(b) If payments are to he made by cash, the original time sheets 
and the original rolls will accompany the Funds. Bach employee 
will receipt for the amount due him in the space provided therefor 



REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 33 

on the pay roll, and payment will be made immediately after he 
signs his name to the roll (par. 91S). The assistant will personally 
supervise the payments, and after payment will return the time rolls 
and original pay rolls to the officer in charge, with the following cer- 
tificate on each time sheet: 

I certify that all amounts on this time roll were paid in cash to the individuals 
named and identified, except 



Should the assistant be unable to pay all the items on the cash 
paid roll within a reasonable time, lie will enter on the time sheets 
the item numbers remaining unpaid after the word "except," and 
note on the time sheet all information possible about the locations of 
the unpaid persons. He will sign the certificates, have them prop- 
erly witnessed, and return the time rolls, the original pay rolls, and 
funds not receipted for to the officer in charge, either by registered 
mail or a reliable employee. 

(c) Any payment on monthly rolls made by other than the assist- 
ant certifying, or before a different witness, will be signed for on an 
individual receipt (Form 221), which, after being witnessed, will be 
forwarded to the oiiicer in charge. 

(d) Change lists (Form 2.24) will be furnished assistants for con- 
venience in procuring funds of the correct denominations required 
for payments. 

(e) Assistants will be furnished envelopes (Form 223), if desired, 
for use in the payment of employees. 

912. Payments during the month. — Employees who leave the service 
before the end of the month will be paid as directed by the officer in 
charge, and no payments will be made by the assistant until he has 
received authority and instructions therefor. 

913. Service vouchers. — An employee leaving the work at which 
there are no funds for making payments will sign the original of a 
service voucher (Form 8b) for the amount due, which the assistant 
will transmit to the officer in charge with a letter stating the name, 
occupation, rate, amount due, and place to which payee desires the 
check sent; or if the employee prefers, he will be given a time check 
on the St. Louis office. (Form 212.) 

91 A. Funds advanced. — For pa}mrent of employees leaving the serv- 
ice during the month, money may be advanced to an assistant on 
his requisition and receipt. This advance will be accounted for on 
cash paid rolls, which, as they are filled, will be sent to the officer in 
charge. (Par. 907a.) The assistant will be credited with the amounts 
of such cash paid rolls, counter receipts being given therefor, and if 
necessary additional advances will be made him. 

(a) Every cash paid roll sent in will be accompanied by its time 
sheet properly certified, as explained. (Par. 911b.) 

(b) Requisitions for funds will be made the subject of separate 
letters with full explanations as to the necessities for the amounts 
asked. (Par. 1001e-l.) 

(c) The balance of funds remaining in the hands of assistants at 
the end of the month will be stated in the letter transmitting the 

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34 REGULATIONS EOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 

monthly pay rolls. The amount of hinds on hand will be noted also 
on each trimonthly report. 

(d) Assistants will use all possible precautions to protect govern- 
ment money. At least two armed guards will accompany all ship- 
ments of funds; and only the assistant, or not more than one other, 
preferably the next in rank, will know the combination of the safe 
in which funds are kept. 

915. Time cherts. — Upon written request assistants may he fur- 
nished with hooks of time checks (Form 212), payable only at the 
St. Louis office. 

(a) On each time check will he stated the earliest date on which it 
is payable, due allowance being made for the duplicate check of 
advice to reach the officer in charge by ordinary mail. 

(b) Payment will he refused on time checks until the duplicate 
advice checks are received. 

(c) Signatures by "X" mark to time checks (Form 212) will In- 
witnessed. 

(d) An employee will not he given a time check on account of 
any service for which he Las signed pay rolls or vouchers, or whose 
time will be stated on the regular monthly rolls. 

(e) Separate time checks will be issued for pay due under each 
appropriation, month, and rate of pay. 

(/) Time checks for services during the current month will not he 
issued after the 25th of any month, except for urgent reasons. 

(g) Assistants issuing time checks for payment at the St. Louis 
office will promptly forward to the ollicer in charge the duplicates 
thereof containing the signatures of the employees. The duplicates 
should be forwarded by mail or other conveyance in time to reach 
the St. Louis office not later than the time of arrival there of the em- 
ployees concerned, if practicable. 

916. Foremen's time cherts. — Foremen's time checks (Form 211) 
will not be paid at the St. Louis office. They will be paid only at the 
local of lice of the assistant in charge of the work on which the service 
was performed, or in lieu thereof proper time checks will there la 1 
issued for payment at the St. Louis office. 

917. Damaged time checks. — Leaves 1 and 2. time check and Letter 
of advice of damaged or mutilated time checks will he marked "Void " 
conspicuously in red ink, and forwarded at once to the officer in charge 
without letter of transmittal. 

918. Payments to creditors only. — Disbursing officers of the United 
States have no authority to make payments to any one except the 
original persons to whom money is due. The receipt of a wife for 
her husband's wages will therefore not he accepted, nor will pay- 
ment be made 1 to assignees holding claims or vouchers for money due 
from the United States. 

(a) An attachment can not be enforced against public money in the 
hands of a disbursing officer of the Government, and he is authorized 
to pay the government creditor without regard to such attempted 
levy. 

919. Bills for labor. — All services other than personal will be 
reported by the assistants at the etui of every month, or when the 
service is completed, on duplicate statements in the form of hills 
containing full details of the time, rate of pay, and inclusive dates of 



EEGULATIONS FOE EIVEE AND HAEBOE WOEK. 35 

the service; each copy certified b}' the creditor, as specified in par- 
agraph 1007, and also by the assistant, as follows: 

Service rendered as stated. 



(Title) 

(a) The owner of teams, any of which he does not drive, will sub- 
mit statements on the team bills (Form 241) furnished for that pur- 
pose. 

(6) All bills for labor will be forwarded as soon as possible after the 
close of the month during which the service was performed. Their 
total will be included in the labor statement and distribution. 

X. — Peocueing Supplies. 

1001. Requisitions. — Assistants will make necessary requisitions 
for all property, material, and supplies required. Regular requisi- 
tions will be submitted, in duplicate, for all articles and supplies, 
except subsistence stores, on Forms 701, 702, 602, or 603, before the 
10th day of the month preceding that for which the articles are 
required (except in cases" of extraordinary emergency). (Par. 804.) 

(a) The assistant in charge of the engineer depot will submit his 
requisition for purchases before the 15th day of each month. 

(6) Assistants will not manufacture (except for requirements of 
their own works) or transfer to others, any property, material, or 
supplies in advance of requisitions therefor, approved by the officer 
in charge. 

(c) In cases of emergency, special requisitions may. be made, but 
assistants will so anticipate their needs that the number of such 
requisitions will be reduced to a minimum. 

(d) Assistants will state upon each requisition made on Form 701 
the specific purpose for which each article is to be applied, the probable 
cost, and the date of delivery desired. Whenever practicable, all 
articles will be ordered for delivery on a regular issue day for subsist- 
ence stores. 

(e) Separate requisitions will be made upon the proper blanks for 
each of the following classes of supplies: 



1. Funds Letter. 

2. Instruments, etc. , from engineer's office 701 

3. General stationery, medicines, etc., from engineer's office 703 

4. Blank forms, from engineer's office : '.. 704 

5. Articles to be purchased in field, with letter requesting authority, etc 701 

6. Property to be furnished by assistants 701, 602, 603 

7. Materials to be furnished by assistants 701-2 

8. Subsistence stores from supply depot 801-2 

9. Subsistence to be purchased in field with letter requesting authority, etc 801-2 



(/) Forms 703 and 704 for office supplies, together with 801 and 802 
for subsistence stores, will be used also for invoices and receipts. 
(Par. 1205d.) 

(g) Should there be a large number of items, Forms 602 and 603 
may be used for requisitions for property and Form 702 for materials. 



36 REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 

(h) Requisitions upon the engineer depot for subsistence will bo 
made in triplicate and sent to the assistant in charee of the depot 
as provided in paragraph 804. Requisitions for all other articles 
will be made in duplicate and sent to the officer in charge; one copy 
will be retained at the St. Louis oilice and the other will be returned 
through the assistant who furnishes the articles required, with 
approval or disapproval noted thereon. 

1002. Purchases. — As a general rule supplies will be purchased in 
St. Louis under the immediate direction of the officer in charge. 
They will be delivered directly to the assistant in the field as required, 
or they may be delivered at the engineer office or depot, to be issued 
to assistants upon requisition therefor. 

(a) In case of an emergency, or when it seems most advantageous 
and economical for the Government, purchases may be made by assist- 
ants in the field. (Pars. 806, 1003, 1004.) 

(b) Antecedent authority from the officer in charge will be ob- 
tained for purchases by an assistant, except when the necessity 
therefor is immediate and urgent. In the latter case a letter of 
explanation wdll be forwarded promptly, accompanied by a requisi- 
tion (Form 701), in duplicate, for approval.- (Par. 1001. 1 

(c) The following list of articles are excepted from the above rule, 
and their purchase without antecedent authority is positively for- 
bidden: Surveying or drawing instruments, photographic apparatus, 
professional books, books of reference, maps, charts, telephones, type- 
writing machines, vessels, boats, animals, furniture and furnishings 
for offices, furniture for boats, steam engines and all other machinery 
and appliances. 

1003. Proposals. — When authority has been granted by the ollicer 
in charge for purchases in the field, proposals for furnishing the 
articles (Form 831) will be invited upon proper advertisement in the 
vicinity of the works upon which they are to be used, if time ami 
circumstances permit. 

(a) A copy of the advertisement, all the proposals received, and an 
abstract of the latter will be forwarded to the ollicer in charge with a 
letter showdng the recommendations of the assistant. 

(b) Information in regard to supplies or services for which pro- 
posals have been invited will be furnished, on application, to all per- 
sons desiring it, but no employee will be permitted to render assist- 
ance in the preparation of proposals nor furnish names of other 
prospective bidders. 

lOOJf.. Orders for purchases in open marl,,!, etc. Assistants making 
purchases without advertisement (in open market I, will make the 
required orders in duplicate (Form 834); the original to be press 
copied and forwarded to the dealer, the duplicate to be forwarded to 
the officer in charge. When practicable, inquiry should be made 
among the dealers as to prices of the best and most suitable articles 
or service, and the order stating the quantities and unit prices should 
be given previous to the purchase or delivery of the articles. 

(a) Purchases made under formal or emergency contracts and 
orders issued by the ollicer in charge under accepted proposals do not 
require additional orders by assistants; but meat required for 
delivery at the engineer depot will for convenience be ordered on 
Form 833, and vegetables on Form 832. 



REGULATIONS FOR RIVER, AND HARBOR WORK. 37 

1005. Inspection by assistants. — Assistants will see that all articles 
purchased by or furnished them are of good quality, and that the 
prices of those purchased by them are reasonable and within the 
current market rates. 

1006. No purchases from employees of United States. — Purchases 
will not be made from persons in the government employ. 

1007. Bills. — All bills for purchases and for services other than per- 
sonal, will be rendered in duplicate; both copies being certified by 
the creditor or his representative, as follows: 

I certify that the foregoing account is correct and just, and that payment therefor 
has not been received. 

The certificate on bills of individuals will be signed by the indi- 
vidual in person. On bills in favor of a company partnership, doing 
business as such, the certificate will be signed with the firm name by 
one of the members of the firm, who will affix also his own signature 
and the words, "One of the firm," thus: 

Smith & Jones, 
Per John Smith, one of the firm. 

On bills in favor of a corporation, the certificate will be signed with 
the correct corporate name of the company by. one of its officers, who 
will also sign his own name and state the capacity in which he signs, 
thus: 

Chicago-Edison Mfg. Co., 
Per John Smith, Secretary. 

(a) For purchases made by the St. Louis office, duplicate certified 
bills will be forwarded to the assistant receiving the supplies, who, 
after verifying the prices and amounts, will indorse on the face of 
each copy of the bill over his signature and title : ' ' Received in good 
order." 

(b) Supplies purchased in open market locally by assistants will 
be billed in duplicate and certified by the creditor as specified above. 
The assistant after verifying the bills will certify both copies of each 
bill, over his signature, as follows: 

Received in good order; prices correct and just. 

For purchases in open market the assistant will also state on the 
duplicate copy of each bill, over his signature and title, the reason for 
purchasing in that manner, such as: 

In an emergency, the public exigencies requiring immediate delivery of supplies 
or performance of service. No time to advertise by newspapers, posters, or circulars. 
Impracticable to secure competition. 

In my opinion it was most economical and advantageous to dispense with advertising. 
Proposals were invited and none were received. 
Proposals were above the market price or otherwise unreasonable. 

(c) Assistants will state on the duplicate copy of each bill the object 
to which each item is to be applied, and if the bill contains perma- 
nent property, he will state on the duplicate of each the correct names 
under which the articles are to be entered on the records of property. 
(Form 612-613.) 

(d) Assistants will forward all completed bills promptly to the offi- 
cer in charge with a letter of transmittal, especially bills containing 
a stipulation that the creditor will allow a discount if payment is 
made within a certain stated time. 



38 REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 

(e) On the back of the duplicate copy of each l>ill will be stated in 
pencil the number of the order, under which the purchase is made, 
the date of the bill, the name of the creditor, and the amount of the 
bill. 

1008. Purchases by contract. — When materials arc delivered under 
contract or special agreement, on which partial payments are to be 
made, duplicate reports (Form 711) of the materials received will be 
made bv assistants at the end of the month. The reports will show 
in detail the quantities delivered, accepted, and rejected, with the 
cause of rejection, and will be accompanied by statements, in dupli- 
cate, in the form of bills of the quantities accepted (par. 1304), and 
certified by the creditor, as prescribed in paragraph 1007. 

The reports and statements will be closed by the Following certifi- 
cate over the signature and title of the assistant: 

I certify that the above articles were received in good order, that the statement is 
correct, and that no part of the material reported as received and on which payment 
is to be made has been reported by me on any previous statement . 



(Title) 

XI.— Plant. 

1101 . Classification. — Separate accounts will be kept for the service 
of each of the following items of plant: 

Steamer Gen. J. H. Simpson hours 

Steamer Wm. R. King do 

Dredges : 

No. 3 do 

No. 4 do 

No. 5 do 

No. 6 do 

Tenders: 

Wood days 

Steel do 

Barges: 

Model do 

Flat do 

Boats, store do 

Quarter boats do 

Office and survey boats do 

Pile drivers do 

Derrick boats ". do 

Machine shop boats do 

Derricks do 

Flats: 

Wood do 

Steel do 

Small boats (yawls and skiffs) do 

Portable quarters, 1 section do 

Engineer depot do 

Tools and appliances (laborers) do 

Boarding outfit rations 



1102. Service. — A daily record will be kept (Form 231), showing 
the service of each kind of plant, as given above, on each division of 
the work. (Par. 501.) 

(a) The time of towboats and dredges will be kept in hours: the 
time of tools and appliances will be kept in the days of laborers, deck 



REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 39 

hands, and boatmen using- them, the time of boarding outfit in rations, 
and all other plant in days of twenty-four hours each. 

(b) All time of plant while in service and carrying a crew, Sundays 
and holidays included, will be charged to the item of work upon which 
employed. 

(c) No charge will be made for the time of plant while placed for 
care or repairs at the fleet, depot, or quarry. 

(d) The time of towboats will be charged to brush, stone, piles, 
mattress lumber, and coal for the time of moving empty barges to 
the loading place, as well as for moving the loaded barge to a con- 
struction work or fleet. 

(e) Towage will be charged to the proper divisions of a field work 
for all service performed at the locality, together with all time 
required in towing plant to and from the work. The towage of plant 
to and from the depot will, if possible, be charged to the work or 
material on account of which the plant was moved. No time of any 
plant will be charged to any other single item of plant, but time 
expended in moving property, that can not properly be charged to a 
material or work, will be charged to the general item "Plant." 
(Par. 502b.) 

(/") Steam tenders will be under the direction of the assistant to 
whom they are assigned. A daily record will be kept for their 
service. (Form 521, par. 408.) 

(g) A daily record will be kept (Form 521) of the service of each 
pile driver. (Par. 408.) This record will show the amount of each 
kind of work done, the length- of each pile or stringer, the depth of 
water at each pile with its penetration, aiid a list of material expended. 

The time lost by the driver will also be noted, with such explana- 
tory remarks as may be required. 

(h) The service of each barge will be charged to the material with 
which it is loaded, beginning at the time the barge was taken in tow 
for loading with its material and ending with its unloading. Assist- 
ants under whom barges are loaded or unloaded will record the time 
when barges arrive or leave and when loading or unloading was com- 
pleted. Assistants will also report the time of a barge used on any 
part of the construction work. 

(i) A record of the time of the barges (Form 231) will be kept at the 
engineer depot as a check on the field records. It will be posted 
from reports (Form 532) submitted by towboats and assistants. 
(Pars. 403, 1104a.) 

1103. Barge tickets. — Masters of towboats will leave a barge ticket 
(Form 531) with each empty barge, showing the condition of the 
barge and the date from which the service should be charged. With 
loaded barges, towboats will receive from the assistant, contractor' 
or other person loading, the tickets left with the barge when empty' 
together with a second ticket (Form 531) showing the condition of the 
barge and outfit, the time of loading, and the kinds and quantities of 
material with which loaded. On delivering loaded barges, masters of 
towboats will deliver both tickets referred to, and also a third ticket 
for each barge (Form 531), showing condition, time in transit, etc. 

1104- Reports. — Assistants will submit a report (Form 504) at the 
end of each half year showing the service of each kind of plant (par. 
1101) during the half year on each item of the work (par. 501) as 
kept in the record book. (Form 231.) 



40 REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 

(a) Masters of towboats and other assistants will report weekly or 
oftener to the engineer depot (Form 532) all changes in the local ion 
of plant, and also any change in the service to which it is applied. 
(Pars. 403, 1102 i.) 

(6) Each assistant will make a duplicate report at the close of the 
season, stating the condition of each piece of plant in his charge and 
the repairs needed to place it in good condition. One c< py of this 
report will be forwarded to the officer in charge and the other will 
accompany the invoice of the property. 

(c) The condition of all barges and the repairs needed thereon will 
be reported by the master of the fleet as soon as possible alter assem- 
bling the plant in winter harbor. 

1105. Changes in plant. — Extensive repairs or alterations < I' the 
plant or machinery thereon will not be made without antecedent 
authority from the officer in charge. 

1106. Care of boilers. — All steam boilers in use on the works under 
this office will be inspected yearly by the United States inspector at 
St. Louis or some other competent person designated by the officer in 
charge. A certificate of the inspection (Form 961) will be issued 
from this office for each boiler or set of boilers, and this certificate, 
properly framed, will be posted in a conspicuous place near the boili re 
referred to. 

(a) The boilers on snag boats, towboats, noncondensing dredges, 
and tenders in ordinary service will be cleaned regularly once a we< k : 
all other boilers and the boilers of strain tenders while caring for plant 
at the fleet or engineer depot will be cleaned regularly every two 
weeks, when practicable. The cleaning will be done < n Sundays, 
unless it can be done on week days without interference with regular 
work. 

(b) The boilers of dredges will not be cleaned while in a cut, if it 
can be avoided. 

(c) All boilers w r ill be thoroughly scaled every two weeks. 

(d) Before draining boilers for cleaning, they will be permitted to 
cool slowly. Except in case of an emergency, boilers will be cooled 
for at least eighteen hours after fires have been drawn before being 
drained for cleaning. 

(e) Invariably, when there is a fire under a boiler, the i<'ri\ water 
will be thoroughly warmed before entering the boiler. If exhaust 
steam is not available for this purpose live steam will be used. 

(/") Assistants will satisfy themselves personally that the foregoing 
directions are complied with. 

1107. Care of towboats. — The following roster will compose the 
minimum crew to be on board all towboats in charge of this office 
under the conditions stated, at all times when the boat is in commission : 

Licensed officer in charge (captain, pilot, <>r male) 1 

Marine engineer 1 

Steamboat watchman, shipkeeper, or other member of the crew specially desig- 
nated by the captain for such duty 1 

Stokers, competent to tend boilers under steam 2 

Competent deck hands 2 

Of the above crew on board not less than the following shall be 
on watch duty at any time: 

Steamboat watchman, shipkeeper, or licensed officer designated by the captain to 

fill the watchman's place 1 

Marine engineer, or a stoker competent to tend boilers under steam 1 

Deck hand 1 



REGULATIONS FOE RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 41 

Whenever fires are under the main boilers, or the boat is in a tow, 
there shall be not less than the following crew on board at any time: 

Master or mate 1 

Pilot 1 

Marine engineer 1 

Steamboat watchman, shipkeeper, or licensed officer designated by the captain 

for such duty 1 

Stokers, competent to tend boilers under steam 3 

Competent deck hands 4 

Of the above crew on board not less than the following shall be 
on watch at any time: 

Steamboat watchman, shipkeeper, or a licensed officer designated by the captain 

for such duty 1 

Marine engineer 1 

Stoker, competent to tend boilers under steam 1 

Deck hand 1 

(a) Members of the crew will leave the boat only with the consent 
of the captain or his representative, and will leave on file in the boat's 
office such addresses that they may easily and quickly be recalled 
to be again on the beat within two hours after notice is sent them. 

(b) Vvhenever steam is .off the main boilers, the auxiliary boilers 
will be under steam, and connected with pumps available for fire duty. 

(c) Every fire on board shall be attended to at frequent regular 
intervals by one of the crew especially charged with that duty. 
(Pars. 109/1111 b.) 

1108. Direction of towb oats. —In general, the movement of towboats 
will be directed from this office, but in the absence of such superior 
orders, they will receive directions from the assistant engineers in 
local charge. 

(a) To prevent unnecessary stoppage and delay at the different 
works, assistants will communicate their wants to the boats by means 
of signals, using flags by day and lanterns by night, in accordance 
with the code in Appendix C. 

(6) A signal of some kind should be displayed at all times at each 
locality where work is in progress. 

(c) Upon approaching a locality where signals are required, if none 
are visible, masters of towboats will sound the usual steamboat hail. 
In response, the appropriate signal will be displayed at once, but this 
instruction does not relieve assistants from responsibilities under this 
paragraph. 

(d) Masters of towboats will report their location and movements 
by mail, or if emergency requires, by telegraph or telephone, far 
enough in advance for all needed instructions to reach them without 
causing delay. (Par. 205.) 

(e) Masters of towboats will instruct their pilots to look carefully 
for signals hailing the boat to stop for messages, when passing the 
following points, viz: Sulphur Springs, Little Rock, Grand Tower, 
Cape Girardeau, Commerce, and Cairo. 

1109. Soundings. — Masters of towboats will ascertain the depth 
of water upon each of the river bars passed over, using the ordinary 
sounding lead. 

(a) These soundings will be recorded immediately thereafter upon 
the manifold sounding book. (Form 512.) The duplicate copy for 
each day with a copy of the log will be forwarded by first mail to the 
officer in charge. (Par. 401.) 



42 



REGULATIONS FOB RIVEB AND HABBOB WORK. 



(b) Changes in the direction of the steamboal channel will be 
reported to the officer in charge' as they occur. (Par. 406.) 

1110. Telegraph and telephone stations.- The following list of tele- 
graph and telephone stations is published for the use of assistants. 
Masters of steamers will report to this office by wire through these 
stations whenever necessary on passing, and masters of snag boats 
will report at intervals of twenty-four to forty-eight hour- and oftener 
in emergencies, stating the day and hour of arrival and probable 
departure, next address for mail, etc., and other desirable informa- 
tion. 

The distances given in the table will be used in mileage reports of 
all steamers. 



Telegraph points. 


Distance 
from 
Eads 
Bridge 


[Telegraph points. 


Distance 
from 
Bads 

Bridge. 




Miles. 

18 

20 
25 

5.5 
75 
105 
130 
145 
185 
220 
255 
290 
345 
415 




490 






575 


Kimms vick 


Rosedale 


580 






660 
























950 




Melville 


985 












1,015 






1.070 






1.150 


Memphis 







1111. Care of plant.— All floating plant will be kept well secured, 
sparred, and free from water. At least two good lines of suitable size 
will be kept on each piece, and a suitable pump will be available for 
use on each end of every hull. Each piece will be inspected and the 
hull examined for leaks at least twice each day. 

(a) No boat with a cabin will be laid up within two barge lengths 
of any other cabin if it can be avoided. Plant in harbor should have 
the cabins in as many well-separated groups as possible and all em- 
ployees will be subsisted and quartered on one boat only, located as 
far from any other cabin as possible. 

(b) Fires and lights will be allowed on government property only 
when and where necessary: stoves and lamps will be kepi in as safe 
condition as possible, and all will be tended at frequent and regular 
intervals. 

(c) A tender or other piece of plant witb a steam boiler will be kept 
under steam at all times at the fleet, the depot, a large construction 
work, or wherever a considerable amount of plant is located. 

It will have a suitable steam pump in good order (as ascertained 
by daily tests) with two hose connections, two nozzles, and at least loo 
feet of serviceable 2^-inch fire hose, ready for connection. This fire 
boat will have at least two siphon connections, 1 inch diameter, on 
each side, and carry 200 feet of steam hose or pipe, with tour siphons; 
two for 3-inch pipe and two for 1 i-ineh pipe, lor use when plant is 
leaking. 

((/) All plant with cabins will be provided, while in commission, 
with a hand or steam pump, together with an ample supply of water 



REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 43 

hose so arranged that at least one stream can be quickly thrown upon 
a fire in any part of the plant. Not less than 300 feet of fire hose will 
be kept on each steamer and dredge while in commission, and not less 
than 300 feet near each of the fire plugs in the yard of the engineer 
depot. This hose will be tested and the crew drilled in its use at least 
once a week. 

U ) A suitable number of fire extinguishers, properly charged, will 
be kept at convenient places on every boat carrying a crew, and the 
members thereof will be instructed as to their use. All extinguishers 
will be freshly charged each spring according to instructions on the 
cases. 

As many extinguishers as can be used by the fleet crew will be kept 
charged in a warm room on the quarters used during the winter. 
Those not needed during the winter will be discharged to prevent 
freezing. 

(/) Water barrels will be kept filled at convenient places around 
all cabins. Each barrel will contain an iron bucket, and the water 
therein will be salted in cold weather to prevent freezing. 

(g) All steam boilers, tanks, pumps, pipes, and other fittings con- 
taining water will be thoroughly drained when plant is laid up, par- 
ticular attention being given to fittings in the hold. 

(fi) All roofs will be examined frequently, especially after storms, 
and all leaks will be stopped. 

XII. — Property. 

1201. Accountability. — A strict accountability for government 
property is enjoined upon everyone. Employees will be held pecun- 
iarily responsible for losses of public property in their care, unless the 
reasons given for such losses are acceptable to the officer in charge. 
(Pars. 1206, 1207.) 

1202. Records. — Each assistant will keep in the property record 
(Forms 612 or 613) an abstract of all receipts, expenditures, and 
transfers of property. This record will be balanced to December 31, 
inclusive, each year, and transmitted to the officer in charge before 
January 10, following. 

(a) Separate records, returns, and other papers pertaining to prop- 
erty will be made for each towboat and dredge with its outfit, as well 
as for property belonging to different appropriations. 

(b) Property will be entered in this book under the following classi- 
fications: Permanent property, materials, subsistence stores, sta- 
tionery, and medicines. The items in each class will be arranged in 
alphabetical order. 

(c) Alphabetical arrangement of items will be made upon all lists 
of property, invoices, and receipts, submitted to the officer in charge. 

id) Special returns of property from assistants may be called for 
at any time. 

1203. Inspection. — Assistants will personally inspect the property 
in their care, and verify the returns therefor before signing and trans- 
mitting them to the officer in charge, or as soon thereafter as possible. 

1204.. Transfers. — Property will not be transferred from one 
assistant to another without the authority of the officer in charge. 

(a) No property will be transferred from one assistant to another 
which has not been previously accounted for on the return of the 



44 REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 

assistant making the transfer. If the article is found to be surplus 
and not on the return, it will be taken up from ''Surplus.'' and a 
signed memorandum to that effect forwarded to the officer in charge, 
before the transfer is made. 

(b) Bills of lading (Form 741) will be made in triplicate For all 
property shipped for transfer; one copy, to be signed by the master 
or steward of the boat on which the articles are shipped, will be 
retained by the shipper; one copy after being signed by the assistant 
receiving the property, or his agent, will be retained by the boat; 
and the third copy will accompany the property. 

(c) Memorandum receipts for property received or shipped may 
be made on printed dray tickets. (Form 742.) 

1205. Invoices and receipts. — Assistants will make separate invoices 
and receipts for transfer of the following classes of articles (par. 1 lOle) : 

Forms. 

Permanent property 601, 602, 603 

Materials 601, 702 

Stationery and medicines 703 

Blank forms 704 

Subsistence stores 801, 802 

(a) Invoices and receipts for the transfer of permanent property 
will be made in duplicate by the assistant making the transfer, who 
will sign both copies of the invoices, and forward both copies of the 
invoices and receipts with the property, or as soon thereafter as 
possible. 

The assistant receiving the property will sign both copies of the 
receipt, if correct, and return them to the assistant making the trans- 
fer, sending one copy of the invoice to the officer in charge. The 
assistant making the transfer will send one copy of the receipt to the 
officer in charge. 

(b) Materials will be transferred in a manner conforming to the 
above directions for permanent property, except that single copies of 
invoices and receipts will be used. These will he retained by the 
assistants concerned. 

(c) Invoices and receipts for miscellaneous materials, which 
include all materials not mentioned by name in paragraph 1301, will 
show the cost of each item and the total cost of all such material 
included in the transfer, in red ink. 

(<l) Invoices and receipts for stationery, medicines, blank forms, 
and subsistence stores are provided for by the requisitions. 'Par. 
1001 f; Forms 703, 704.) 

(e) Before signing invoices and receipts, assistants will satisfy 
themselves that they are correct, and that the designations of the 
articles agree with those on the official property return. 

1206. Foremen's and stewards' receipts. Assistants will require 
receipts from foreman, stewards, and others for the tools and 
other property in their care. The latter wili. at the end of each 
month, when discharged, or transferred elsewh re. be required to 
render reports (Forms 621, 622) to the assistants under whom they 
work, of the number and condition of the articles on hand for which 
they are responsible. 

1207. Lest property. — All articles lost, destroyed, or missing will 
be reported promptly by foremen, etc., and will be charged upon 



REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 45 

the current time rolls against the person intrusted with them, unless 
it can be shown that they were unavoidably lost or destroyed, in 
which case written certificates will be submitted, stating the dates 
and circumstances of each loss, and signed by the persons cognizant 
of the facts. 

(a) When articles lost through carelessness or neglect are to be paid 
for by the person responsible for their loss, their value, as given in 
the price list, will be deducted upon the pay roll from the amount 
due the said person, and the remainder, set down in the "Amount 
paid" column of the roll, will be the net amount actually paid. No 
change will be made in the time of service or rate of pay on time 
sheet or pay roll, but the deduction will be explained in a note on 
the time sheet, and the assistant will submit by letter an itemized 
statement of the articles lost. 

(b) When property has been lost applications for relief shall be 
submitted at least as often as half-yearly, and when practicable 
quarterly, accompanied by the usual affidavits or certificates. 

In all cases where, affidavits are required it is preferred that they 
should not be sworn to before a notary public who is employed under 
the engineer department. 

(c) If articles of public property are embezzled, or lost or dam- 
aged through neglect, by a civilian employee, the value or damage 
as ascertained (and by a survey if necessary) shall be charged to 
him and set against any pay or money due him. 

(d) Assistants will submit promptly at the close of each half 
year, June 30 and December 31, a report in duplicate (Form 631), 
stating whether any articles of permanent property have been 
destroyed, lost, or stolen. Only articles the loss of which is defi- 
nitely known, together with the dates and attending circumstances, 
will be entered on these reports, which will be made the basis of 
statements sent to assistants for affidavits as to their loss. 

Such explanations as "Missing when inventory was taken/' etc., 
will not be accepted as sufficient evidence for loss of property. 

(e) Instructions will be sent assistants regarding the disposition 
of property on the returns reported as lost. Articles will not be 
dropped from the property? - records until authority is received from 
the officer in charge. 

1208. Unserviceable property.— No government property of any 
description will be thrown away. Unserviceable property will be 
cared for; if broken, the parts will be kept together and transferred 
to the assistant in charge of the engineer depot at the close of the 
season, or before, if serviceable property is needed in exchange. 

(a) Articles thus transferred will be accompanied by invoices and 
receipts, as required by paragraph 1205, and the assistant at the 
engineer depot will, if desired, replace them with serviceable articles, 
also accompanied by invoices and receipts. 

(6) The assistant at the engineer depot will report to the officer in 
charge in April of each year the amount of unserviceable property 
on hand at the depot for condemnation. 

(c) Broken china and glassware belonging to mess outfit, when 
transferred to the assistant in charge at the engineer depot, will be 
accompanied by invoices and receipts carrying no other class of 
property. Each invoice will contain the certificate of the assistant 



46 REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 

transferring the articles, "that they were actually broker in service 
without carelessness or neglect." 

(d) About April 1 of each year the assistant in charge al the engineei 
depot will submit to the omcer in charge a consolidated state: 

of all broken crockery received, with a certificate based upon those 
of the assistants transmitting to him, and will hold all the articles 
until instructions are received from the officer in charge as to their 
final disposition. 

(e) The AVar Department recognizes 5 per cent quarterly, or 20 per 
cent per year, as a limit for breakage of china and glassware under 
ordinary conditions of service. Breakage in eaeess of that amount 
will be made the subject of special inquiry by assistants and promptly 
corrected. It will be specially reported by them to the oStta r in 
charge for his instructions quarterly and at the end of the working 
season. 

(/) Brooms, brushes, chamois skins, dishcloth-, dish towels, 
dusters, hacksaw blades, sail needles, mops, and sponges worn <«ut 
in the service will be transferred quarterly to the assistant in charge 
of the engineer depot for exchange, as provided for china and 
glassware. 

(g) In April of each year the assistant in charge of the engineer 
depot will submit to the officer in charge a consolidated statement 
of all worn-out brooms, brushes, etc., with his certificate attached, 
"that they were worn out in the public service, are worthless, and 
have no salable value, and that they have not been included in any 
previous list ." 

The assistant will make recommendations as to th" disposal of the 
property on his statement, and will hold all the articles until instruc- 
tions are received from the officer in charge as to their final 
disposition. 

(h) Unserviceable snagboat property. — Masters of snagboats will 
transfer to the engineer depot broken mess china and glassware, and 
worn-out brooms, brushes, etc., as provided for other assistants, but 
these transfers will be made as may be convenient in connection 
with snagging operations. A list of the articles will be furnished the 
assistant at the depot at the time of the transfer, with a certificate 
attached as required above, and a duplicate th sreof will be sent to 
the officer in charge. 

(i) The assistant in charge at the depot will act upon this prop- 
erty as provided in paragraphs 1208d and 1208g, hut will keep 
separate accounts and submit separate reports therefor, as required. 
(Par. 1202a.) 

1209. Surveymg instruments. — Surveying and drawing instruments 
and other office properly are under the charge of the chief clerk. 
Receipts in detail will he given for instruments taken for us;> either 
in the field or office. Upon the return of an instrument it will he 
accompanied by a written statement of its condition and giving a 
list of repairs necessary. Accidents to surveying instruments will 
be reported at once; and if proper repairs can not he made in the 
field, the instrument will be sent to the officer in charge for exchange 
or re pairs. 



BEGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 47 

XIII. — Materials. 

1301. Classification. — The general classification of materials will 
be as follows: 

1. Subsistence rations 

2. Subsistence dollars 

3. Brush, contract cords 

4. Brush, open market do 

5. Piles, contract linear feet 

6. Piles,open market do 

7 . Stone, United States quarry cubic yards 

8. Stone, contract do 

9. Stone, open market do 

10. Rope pounds 

11. Wire do 

12. Iron do 

13. Nails do 

14. Spikes do 

15. Lumber, miscellaneous feet B . M 

16. Lumber, mattress do 

17. Oakum pounds 

IS. Coal bushels 

19. Ice pounds 

20. Cement barrels 

21. Material, miscellaneous (including all 

kinds of material not named in the 

above list) dollars 

1302. Measurements. — Material will be measured as soon as pos- 
sible after its receipt by the Government. Brush, stone, and piles 

f)rocured by the United States will be measured by the assistant in 
ocal charge of the loading party. 

(a) Brush, stone, piles, mattress lumber, and coal not previously 
measured by an assistant will be measured as correctly as possible 
when taken in tow by government steamers, and again when received 
at the works of construction or fleet. 

(b) Final results for piles and mattress lumber can not be obtained 
until the barges are unloaded, unless measured before loaded. 

(c) All original notes and computations will be filed for record. 
They will contain all necessary measurements, names of towboats, 
and numbers of barges transporting the material, together with the 
localities and names of persons from whom they were obtained. 

(d) For measurements of brush the average height and length of 
the barge load at the butts and the average length of the brush will 
be measured, and being multiplied together, the product will be 
reduced to cords, proper deductions being made for unfilled spaces, 
fraudulent loading, etc. 

(e) For measurements of stone cross sections of the barge load 
will be measured at intervals of 10 feet, the depths being taken at" 
each side and at the middle of each section. The mean of the four 
depths, counting the middle twice, multiplied by its widths, will be 
the area of each cross section. The mean area of two adjacent cross 
sections, multiplied by their interval (10 feet), will be the volume of 
that section. Adding all the sectional volumes together, deduc- 
tions will be made for all unfilled spaces, kevels, timber heads, pumps, 
fraudulent loading, etc., and the result will be reduced to cubic yards. 



48 REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 

(/) All mattress lumber will be measured in bulk when moved 
from loading landings by government steamers. (Par. 1302 a.) 
For such measurements the same general methods as for stone will 
be employed, omitting middle depths, and the result given in cubic 
feet. The final inspection and measurements in detail of mattress 
lumber will be made as soon as possible after arrival at the work. 
Measurements will be made strictly in accordance with the terms of 
the contract under which the lumber was purchased. 

1303. Records. — The final measurements of brush, piles, stone. 
and mattress lumber will be recorded in the book for that purpose. 
(Form 71' 2.) 

(a) A complete record of all material will be kepi in the hook 
(Form 723) provided for that purpose. This book will he balanced 
to show the quantities of each kind on hand at the beginning and end 
of each month during the working season, the quantities, from whom 
received, to whom transferred, and the amounts expended on each 
division of the work, as given in and required by paragraph 501. 

(b) A separate record will also be kept for each kind of material 
in the property record. (Forms 612, 013.) 

1304- Reports. — Each assistant will submit a duplicate report 
(Form 711) at the end of each month for all material received under 
contract or special agreement. 

(a) Separate reports should be made for each creditor, showing in 
detail the dates, quantities received, accepted, and rejected, with 
reasons therefor, and all information required by the form, accom- 
panied by duplicate bills; all certified as required by paragraphs 1007, 
1008. 

(b) A full report of material received, expended, and on hand 
(Form 503) will be submitted by each assistant at the end of every 
half year, containing all information required thereon. 

These reports will include all the materials named in paragraph 
1301, in the order and units given. 

The values given for No. 21 (material, miscellaneous) will he the 
totals of all kinds of materials except those named in paragraph 
1301, Nos. 1 to 20. 

1305. Agreements to sell brush. — When brush is procured by hired 
labor, assistants will obtain the antecedent written consent of the 
owner of the land, stating the price, method of measurement, and 
time of payment. (Form 941.) 

When brush is cut from land for which no owner can be found, the 
fact will be reported to the oflicer in charge, with a statement of the 
amount procured. 

1306. Transfer of material. — Material shipped for transfer will he 
accompanied by bills of lading (Form 741 ) or dray tickets (Form 
742), as for property (par. 1204 1> c), and will be receipted for as pre- 
scribed in paragraph 1205 b. 

XIV. — Physical Data, Surveys, Gauges. 

1401. Reference plane for levels. — The St. Louis office datum, to 
which all levels and elevations will he referred, is a plane 200 feet 
below the elevation of the St. Louis city directrix; 233.97 feet above 
the Mississippi River Commission Cairo datum; 220.84 feet above 



REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 



49 



the Mississippi River Commission Memphis datum; 212.71 feet 
above the Mississippi River Commission preliminary value of gulf 
level; and 213.972 feet above the elevation of mean sea or gulf 
level of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey; and approxi- 
mately 214.27 feet above the 1908 value of the gulf level of Mississippi 
River Commission. 

lJf.02. Gauge heights for construction. — In reporting heights to which, 
works of construction are carried, deposits secured, etc., assistants 
will observe divisions of the river and corresponding gauges as follows : 



River divisions. 


Reference gauge. 












Grays Point. 
Beechridge. 







The zeros and corresponding elevations of characteristic river 
stages on these and other gauges within the district are as follows: 

Zeros and approximate equivalent readings of gauges. 





Zero above 
St. Louis 
datum. 


Equivalent readings. 


Gauge. 


Standard 
low water. 


Mean stage. 


Mean an- 
nual high 
water. 


Bank-full 
stage. 




100.34 
99.52 
166. 26 
165. 91 
163. 97 
156. 70 
0.00 
144. 00 
0.00 
130. 00 
127. 29 
115. 00 
108. 20 
100. 00 
91.00 
87.31 
88.00 
0.00 
68.89 
58.35 
56.87 


79.0 
72.0 
4.0 
4.0 
3.0 
5.0 

154.0 
3.0 

141.5 
2.0 
2.0 
5.5 
5.5 
6.5 
6.0 
7.0 
4.5 
84.5 
5.5 
8.0 
9.0 


85.0 
80.5 
12.5 
12.0 
11.0 
12.5 

162.5 
11.5 

148.5 
11.0 
10.0 
13.5 
13.5 
14.5 
15.0 
15.0 
11.5 
92.0 
14.0 
16.0 
16.5 


98.0 
95.0 
26.5 
26.0 
23.5 
24.5 

174.0 
23.5 

160.0 
24.5 
23.0 
26.5 
25.5 
25.5 
27.0 
26.5 
22.0 

102.0 
27.0 
31.5 
31.5 


101.0 








30.0 




28.5 




26.5 








176.5 




26.0 




162.5 




27.5 


Chester 


26.0 




29.5 




28.0 








29.5 




29.0 


Commerce , 

Hacker To -.vhead 


24.0 
106.0 
31.5 




39.0 




37.5 







Notes.— The equivalent readings are taken from profiles of slopes at stationary stages and are given to 
the nearest half foot. 

Standard low water of 1881, used as a plane of reference by the U. S. Engineer Office, St. Louis, Mo., 
was a 4-foot stage on the Market street gauge, and according to the discharge survey of 1873-1881 the dis- 
charge was then about 41,000 second cubic feet. The discharge for the 4-foot stage, Market street gauge, 
is now, on account of the lowering of the low- water plane in St. Louis Harbor, about 66,000 second cubic feet. 

14-03. Gauge records on maps. — Hydrographic maps will be pro- 
vided with a record, for the period of survey, of the readings of the 
St. Louis and nearest gauges on each side of the district portrayed in 
terms of the gauge marks. The elevations of the zeros of these gauges 
above the St. Louis datum will also be given. 

14-04- Graduation of gauges. — All gauges will be graduated and 
marked in feet and tenths of feet, and will embrace the extreme 
river range between high and low water at each locality. 
46671—10 4 



50 REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 

The markings of each gauge will be the subject of special request 
and will not be made nor thereafter changed without prior authoriza- 
tion by the officer in charge. 

1405. Gauge bench marks. — At least two permanent reference bench 
marks will be established near each gauge, and will be connected by 
closed lines of levels with the nearest established permanent bench 
mark in the main line of levels, when possible, of the Mississippi 
River Commission and also with the zero mark of the gauge. 

(a) Other level notes, necessary for inspection of any gauge, should 
be copied on Form 441, to be filed with the gauge history; and refer- 
ence should be made to the book and page on which the original notes 
may be found. 

1406. Inspection — Reports of gauge inspection, repairs, and con- 
struction will be reported on Form 441, as indicated by the headings 
thereon, with a sketch of the locality. This form will be handled 
carefully and returned to the U. S. Engineer Office without folding 
and with the back left blank for gauge readings. 

(a) The original field notes will also be forwarded for filing with 
official records. 

(b) The determined elevations of the most discrepant gauge marks 
should be shown in the columns of elevations. 

1407. Readings. — Observers will read the gauges daily, Sundays and 
holidays included, at 8 o'clock a. m. During floods, or whenever 
stage is changing rapidly, readings should be taken also at 4 p. m. 
If readings are unavoidably taken in advance, or if delayed, report 
will be made of the exact hour of the reading. 

Great care should be taken to obtain the extreme high and low 
reading of each oscillation in stage and the hour thereof. If another 
person reads the gauge, state the fact and reason. 

(a) The stage as read must be recorded at the gauge on the postal 
card (Form 442) addressed to the U. S. Engineer Office. Take the 
card to the gauge in the cover provided for the purpose, and record 
the reading as soon as obtained. The reading thus recorded shall 
not afterwards be inked in or altered. 

Always compare the reading taken with the previous reading, and 
then with the gauge marks a second time. If the reading is discovered 
to be in error, the correct reading must be written above it without 
erasure, and an explanation made in column of "remarks." Copies 
of all readings must be recorded afterwards in ink in the gauge book 
(Form 444), which must not be taken to the gauge. 

(b) A bulletin at any gauge should at all times show the stage to 
the nearest quarter of a foot, and whether the river is rising (R), 
falling (F), or at a stand (S). It will be changed morning and evening 
whenever there is a change of stage of one-quarter of a foot. 

(c) Report heavy rains, high winds (whether on or oh" shore), ice, 
and the closing and opening of navigation. 

(d) The observer should carefully guard against destruction of 
the gauge. Whenever he finds the permanent gauge in danger, or 
whenever the water is near the top or bottom, he should set a tem- 
porary gauge in a safe place, taking great care to record simultaneous 
readings on both gauges. Also take readings on both gauges before 
the water leaves the permanent gauge, and again on both when it 
returns to the permanent gauge. 

(e) The gauge will be put in good order at each inspection. In 
the interval between inspections, the observer is expected to make 



REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 51 

such repairs as may be needed to keep the gauge in good order. The 
observer must be present during an inspection of the gauge whenever 
notified, and render such assistance as the inspector may require of 
him. 

(f) Report accidents to the gauge at once, by letter. 

(g) The original card (Form 442), as recorded in pencil at the 
gauge, will be mailed promptly after the week's record is completed 
and the required copies have been made. 

(h) At the end of each year the gauge book (Form 444) will be 
returned to the U. S. Engineer Office, and a new one will be supplied. 

XV. — Journeys. 

1501. Authority required. — Assistants will not leave their stations 
or make any journey at government expense, or order their sub- 
ordinates to make such journeys, without antecedent authority of 
the officer in charge, except in cases of emergency. In the latter 
case the assistant will report the fact, and the necessity therefor, 
at once to the officer in charge. 

(a) Application for authority will state the object of the journey. 

1 502. Traveling expenses. — Assistants traveling on government 
business will be allowed their actual traveling expenses, as provided 
by Army Regulations, as follows: 

1. Cost of railroad or steamboat fare. 

2. Transfers to and from railroad stations, not to exceed 50 cents 
each transfer. 

3. Double berth in a sleeping car, seat in a parlor car, or customary 
stateroom accommodations on boats and steamers when extra charge 
is made therefor. 

4. Meals, including tips, not to exceed $4.50 a day while en route 
when meals are not included in the transportation fare paid, and not 
to exceed $4.50 a day for meals, tips, and lodgings during necessary 
delay en route, and when meals are included in the transportation 
fare paid, tips for meals not to exceed 15 cents each. 

5. Cost of meals and lodgings, including baths, tips, and laundry 
work, not to exceed S4.50 a day while on duty at places designated 
in the orders for the performance of temporary duty. 

(a) A memorandum of the expenses, stating the purpose of the 
journey, will be submitted to the officer in charge, with receipts 
(Form 911) in duplicate (or the receipts obtained in duplicate, if 
possible, from ticket agents, etc.), which will be taken whenever 
practicable for all such cash expenditures. 

(&) Traveling expense vouchers will be maele by the officer in 
charge and forwarded to the assistant and employees for their 
affidavits, the cost of which will be included in the vouchers. 

The charges of notaries public and justices of the peace in the 
States of Illinois and Missouri for administering oaths to traveling 
and other accounts are — 



State. 


Notaries 
public. 


Justices of 
the peace. 




Cents. 
25 
50 


Cents. 
35 




20 







52 REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 

Notaries public must impress their official seals to the vouchers, 
and must state the date of expiration of their commissions, 

The fee of a United States Commissioner for administering an 
oath is 10 cents, and need not be attested by a seal. 

Fees can not be paid to clerks or deputy clerks of United States 
courts for administering oaths to traveling or other accounts. 

(c) Traveling expenses will not be incurred (except in cases of 
emergency) when government steamers under this office are in 
commission and can be used without delay to the public service. 

(d) A steamboat employee laid off for want of work, in a port 
other than that at which snipped, may at his request be returned to 
the original port by government steamer under this office. Should 
there be no such boat within a reasonable time, he may be returned 
at government expense for the necessary travel. All such employees 
going to the port from which employed on the same day. win be 
included in a single party, when practicable, for whom reduced rates 
will be obtained if possible. The expense for the entire party will 
be paid by one person, who will obtain a set of receipts for his reim- 
bursement. 

(e) Compensation to employees acting as notaries public. — No officer, 
clerk, or employee in the executive service of the Government, who 
is also a notary public, shall charge or receive any compensation what- 
ever for performing any notarial act for an officer, clerk, or employee 
of the Government in his official capacity, or in any matter in which 
the Government is interested, or for any person when, in the case of 
such person, the act is performed during the hours of such notary's 
service to the Government. Disobediance of this order shall be 
ground for immediate dismissal from the service. 

This order shall not apply to oaths of disinterestedness, or other 
oaths required to be made by law, provided that the work in con- 
nection therewith is not performed during office hours. 

Where affidavits are required it is preferred that they should not be 
sworn to before a notary public who is employed under the Engineer 
Department. 

XVI. — St. Louis Office. 

1601. Office hours. — The usual office hours in the St. Louis office 
are from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m., with an interval of one hour for lunch. 
On Saturdaj^s during July, August, and September the usual office 
hours are from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. Employees, however, will be 
required to observe longer hours, whenever press of work demands 
such extension of time. 

1602. Permission required for absence. — Employees engaged in the 
St. Louis office will not leave the office during office hours without 
permission. 

1603. Address of employees. — The addresses of all employees in the 
St. Louis office will be kept on file by the chief clerk, and for other 
employees by the assistant under whom employed. (Form 213; par. 
707.) 

1604. Rooms. — The rooms in the custom-house occupied by this 
office will be in charge of the chief clerk. 

1605. Records. — All permanent records of the office, as well as 
records finally turned into the office from the field, will be under the 
charge of the chief clerk. 



REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 53 

1606. Maps and drawings. — All maps, drawings, and survey notes 
will be in charge of the office draftsman, who will keep a complete 
record of the same, and who will take proper receipts (Form 413) 
when issuing drawings for temporary use. The receipts will be sur- 
rendered upon the return of the drawings. 

XVII . — Miscellaneous . 

1701. Lighting obstructions. — Assistants and others in local charge 
will see that all obstructions, such as piles, barges, etc., under their 
control are properly lighted at night. 

1702. Buoying channel. — During the low-water season buoys may 
be placed on shoal crossings to assist navigation. 

(a) These will be secured by chains to 10-inch disk anchors, which 
will be jetted 8 to 10 feet into the sand, the length of the chain being 
equal to the penetration plus twice the depth of the water. 

(b) At crossings where buoying is necessary at least two buoys 
should be placed, one on each side of the channel. 

(c) The following rules as to color will be observed : Running down- 
stream, the buoys on the starboard or right-hand side of the channel 
will be white, and those on the port or left hand will be red. 

(d) Buoys placed on obstructions will be white with red center 
bands. Red and white buoys will be placed on all dangerous places, 
wrecks, and obstructions. 

1703. Transportations and passes. — Masters of towboats (other 
than steam tenders) will refuse transportation to all employees and 
other persons not provided with passes (Form 901), except assistant 
engineers and the chief clerk or his representative. 

(a) Return passes to foremen and others sent to St. Louis to em- 
ploy men will read : ' ' Pass foreman and 

party." 

(b) Before the return trip the pass will be indorsed by the assistant 
in charge at the engineer depot, stating the number of men to be 
transported, and whether they are to be subsisted en route on the 
towboat transporting them. 

(c) Passes will be indorsed by the assistant issuing them, with 
the reason therefor, and state whether the bearer is to be subsisted; 
i. e., "account of sickness," "employment," "discharged," "return 
to St. Louis," "to engage men," etc. 

(d) Journeys by foremen will be reduced to a minimum; laborers 
and others will be employed and shipped upon requisition from the 
United States engineer depot, foot of Arsenal street, St. Louis, Mo., 
but it is preferred that they be hired in the locality of the work when 
possible. 

(e) The passes (Form 901) issued by assistants and others author- 
ized by the officer in charge will be required by masters of towboats 
of all persons, except assistants, the chief clerk or his representative, 
and others detailed as watchmen or as crews to accompany plant in 
tow. 

(/) The orders for moving plant should state the number of per- 
sons accompanying it. 

(g) Passes to St. Louis will not be issued to persons discharged 
for cause or who voluntarily leave the works when their services 
are desired by the assistant in local charge, except in case of non- 
contagious sickness. 



54 REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 

1704- Use of private property. — For the erection of portable build- 
ings on private property, assistants will obtain antecedent written 
consent of the owner of the Land. Where such consent i- given 
upon condition of payment of damages, a careful estimate of the 
damages will be made and an agreement in writing concluded with 
the owner, which will be submitted to the officer in charge for 
approval, before the ground is occupied. 

1705. Safe combinations. — Each assistant having a fireproof safe 
assigned to his charge will record the date, maker's name, number 
of the safe, combination, locality, and his own name, and place the 
record in a sealed envelope indorsed thus: 

Safe No 

Location 

Name of assistant 

Date 

This envelope will be placed in another envelope and forwarded 
to the officer in charge when the safe leaves the assistant's pos- 
session. 

1706. Use of books and papers. — Assistants are invited to make 
free use of the professional books and periodicals belonging to this 
office. Upon request, the chief clerk will issue them, taking receipt- 
therefor. (Form 413.) The officer in charge also places his per- 
sonal library at the disposal of assistants desiring to use it. 

1707. Insurance prohibited. — Insurance of public property i> pro- 
hibited, including the valuing of express packages. 

1708. Official mail. — Official communications and other mailable 
matter relating exclusively to the public business will be trans- 
mitted through the mails free of postage, if covered by the " penalty 
envelope." When an assistant writes to a private party on official 
business he may inclose with his letter an official penalty envelope, 
properly addressed to himself, to cover the reply. 

(a) Information which is intended to be used in the performance 
of official duty only is official information, while that which is intended 
to be used for the furtherance of private interest, ends, or business 
in any way whatever, though called for by a public officer, is private 
information. The official envelope may be used to give or obtain 
the former, but not the latter. 

(6) Packages of public property weighing not more than 4 pounds 
may be sent through the mails under cover of the penalty envelope. 
Penalty envelopes with return address may be furnished to any 
person from whom official information is desired, but will not be 
furnished to merchants or other dealers to cover the transmission 
of public property, or the return of official vouchers. 

1709. Registered mail. — Papers or letters, other than valuable 
money papers, will not be sent by registered mail. 

1710. Express. — Packages will not be sent by freight or express, 
except in cases of necessity: when necessity arises therefor, applica- 
tion will be made to the officer in charge for government bills of 
lading. 

(a) Freight and express charges will be paid to the transportation 
companies by the officer in charge upon presentation of the accom- 
plished government bills of lading therefor. 

(6) The use of freight or express lines for official matter that can 
be sent bv mail is forbidden. 



APPENDIXES. 



Appendix A. — Subsistence. 



Allowance for 1,000 rations. — Forms 801 and 802, which are printed 
as guides to probable requirements, include all articles allowed for 
subsistence. The quantities given are the average amounts required 
for 1,000 rations, and are considered ample, having been made up 
from actual consumption of over 1,000,000 rations. Yet, strict 
conformity to the allowances is not obligatory, provided that the 
average cost of the ration in any one month does not exceed 35 cents.. 

The seasons named are those during which the articles can be pro- 
cured at reasonable rates in St. Louis, and these articles will not be 
issued at other times. 



Quantity 
shipped. 


Quantity 
required. 


Unit. 


Articles. 


Quantity 

1,000 
rations. 


Stock- 
packages. 






Pounds... 
...do 




J 

100 
3 

18 

25 

60 

| 120 

15 
15 
90 
36 
30 
60 

1 

1 

1 
2 
i 
5 4 
10 

12, 000 8 
10 

.so- 
is 

i 

20 
60 

48 
48 
2 
2 
i 
100 
20 
15 

i 

2i 


1 pound. 
50 pounds. 
6-12 pounds. 
Bulk. 

24 cans. 

Bulk. 

Do. 
/30-60 boxes, 1 and 
\ pound prints. 

Bulk. 

1 pound. 

100 pounds. 

24 cans. 

23 pounds. 

30 dozen. 

\ pints. 
Do. 

196 pounds. 

4 pound. 
Bulk. 

Do. 
\ pound. 
300 pounds. 
15-pound buckets. 
\ barrel. 
20-50 pounds. 
10 pounds. 
Bulk. 

Do. 
Do. 

48 cans. 

Do. 
Gallon cans. 
1 pound. 
Bulk. 

Do. 
50 pounds. 
Bulk. 

\ pound. 
Do. 

5 gallons. 
















...do 










...do 










Cans 

Pounds . . . 
.do 


Beans: 
























...do 




?r 






do .. 










do... 










...do.... 


Codfish . 








...do... 










Cans 

Pounds . . . 
Dozen 

£ pints 


























Extract: 
















Barrels ... 
...do 


Flour: 
















Pounds... 
..do 


















...do..., 










...do 










.do 










...do 


Jelly 








i barrels... 
Pounds . . . 
...do 


























...do.... 


Malt 








...do 


Meal: 








...do 


Oat 








Cans 

...do 


Milk: 
















Gallons. . . 
Pounds.... 
...do 


























...do 










do 










. .do 


Peas, dried 








...do 


Pepper: 

Black 








do 










Gallons... 


Pickles 





55 



56 



REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 



Quantity 
shipped. 



Quantity 
required. 



Pounds . 
..do.... 
..do.... 
..do.... 



Pounds. 
..do.... 
..do.... 
..do.... 
Bottles.. 
Pounds. 

..do 

..do 

Cans.... 
Pounds. 
..do 



Cans 

..do 

Gallons. 



Pounds . . 

..do 

..do 

..do 



.do. 



Pounds . . 
Bushels.. 

Pounds . . 
Number . 
Pounds.. 

..do 

Dozen.... 



Gallons . . 

Pounds.. 

Pints 

Bushels.. 
Pounds . . 

..do 

..do 



Bunches. 
..do 



Pounds . . 

Bushels.. 
Pounds. . 

..do 

Pints 

Pounds. . 

..do 

..do 



..do.... 
..do.... 
..do.... 
..do.... 
..do... 
..do.... 
Quarts . 
Cans . . . 
..do.... 
..do.... 
..do.... 



..do 

Pounds. 

Gallons . 

Pounds . 

..do 

..do 



Pork, mess 

Potatoes 

Powder, yeast 

Prunes 

Pumpkins, canned. 

Raisins 

Rice 

Sage 

salt, table 

Sauce, pepper 

Shoulders, smoked . 

Soda, baking 

Starch, corn 

Succotash, canned . 
Sugar, granulated.. 
Tapioca 



Black 

Green 

Thyme 

Tomatoes: 

Gallon cans... 

3-pound cans . 
Vinegar 

Meats, fresh: 
Beef- 
Fresh 



Liver... 
Mutton. 
Pork... 



Yeast, compressed 

Vegetables and fruit, fresh: 

Apples, green 

Beans, string (March-No- 
vember) • 

Beets 

Bunches, soup 

Cabbage 

Carrots (July-December) . 

Corn, green (June-Sep- 
tember). 

Cranberries (November- 
March). 

Garlic 

Horseradish 

Lettuce 

Parsnips 

Pepper, Chili 

Potatoes, sweet (Julv- 
April). 

Radishes 

Rhubarb (May-Decem- 
ber). 

Rutabagas ( August-De- 
cember). 

Spinach 

Tomatoes ( June-October). 

Turnips 

Catsup, tomato 

Chocolate (not sweet) 

Cinnamon 

Cloves 

Cocoanut, shredded 

Cracker meal 

Gelatine 

Ham 

Mace 

Mackerel 

Oil, olive 

Peaches, canned 

I 'ears, canned 

Peas, canned 

Pineapple.canned 

Powder, curry 

Sauce, tabasco 

Sugar, powdered 

Syrup, maple 

Meals, fresh: 

Beef, buns and racks 

Pish, fresh 

Veal 



Quantity 

1,000 
rations. 



1.400 
5 
25 



Stock 
packages. 



100-200 pounds. 
Hulk. 

5-pound cans. 
50 pounds. 
.'I cans. 
20 pounds. 
Bulk. 
> pound. 
10 pounds. 
24 bottles. 
8-20 pounds. 
1 pound. 
Do. 

300-pound barrels. 
1 pound. 

Bulk. 
Do. 
J i pound. 



18 i. cans. 
6 24 cans. 
5 50-gallon barrels. 



1,000 250-pound sides. 

BO Bulk. 
50 Do. 

SO Do. 



1 .'.", 



Do. 
ri2 cakes. 
^24 * cakes. 

Bulk, 
l-bushel crates. 

Bulk. 

Dozen. 

100-pound barrels. 

Bulk. 

Dozen. 



Pounds. 

Bints. 

l-bushel crates. 

Bulk. 

Pounds. 

Bulk. 

1 dozen. 
12 stalks. 

Bulk. 

l-bUShel crates. 

350 Bulk. 
100 Do. 

24 bottles. 

i pound. 

| pound. 

Do. 

1 pound. 
Bulk. 
1 pound. 
LOO L2-18 pound. 
i j poun l. 



30 pounds. 
l-quart cans. 
2i cans. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 
(-pound bottle 



5 Bulk. 

3 Gallon cans. 



.... Bulk. 
50 Do. 

.50 i Do. 



REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 



57 



Quantity 
shipped. 


Quantity 
required. 


Unit. 


Articles. 


Quantity 

1,000 
rations. 


Stock 
packages. 






Pounds . . . 
. .do 


Poultry (chickens, old) 


50 
100 

6 
3 

12 
2 

24 

5 

24 

2 
6 


Alive, not less than 4 






pounds each. 






Dozen 

...do 


Vegetal ties and fruit: 


than S pounds each. 






Cauliflower (April-Octo- 
ber). 

Celery (August-June) 

Eggplant (August-Octo- 
ber). 

Grapes (September-De- 
cember). 








Bunches.. 
Dozen 

Pounds... 

Dozen 

Bunches.. 
...do 




























12 stalks. 






Parsley 

Peaches (August-Octo- 
ber). 

Peas, green (May-August). 

Salsify (September-De- 
cember). 








Bushels. .. 
.do 














Bunches. . 

Quarts 

Dozen 


6 | 12 stalks. 












Watermelons (July-Octo- 
ber). 













BILL OF FARE. 



A general bill of fare for laborers for each day of the week, and to 
which stewards will conform approximately, is as follows : 



Breakfast: Coffee, bread and butter, shoulder and beefsteak, potatoes. 

Dinner: Soup, roast beef or pork, mashed potatoes, vegetables, coffee, pudding. 

Supper: Coffee or tea, bread and butter, meat and potatoes, stewed peaches. 



Breakfast: Coffee, bread and butter, beefsteak, boiled potatoes. 

Dinner: Soup, roast pork, boiled potatoes, turnips or some other vegetable, pudding. 

Supper: Coffee or tea, bread and butter, beef or pork, potatoes, fried or stewed. 



Breakfast: Coffee, bread and butter, meat stew, boiled potatoes. 
Dinner: Soup (bean or rice), roast mutton, potatoes, vegetables, pie or pudding. 
Supper: Coffee or tea, bread and butter, mutton and shoulder, potatoes, oat meal 
or grits. 

. WEDNESDAY. 

Breakfast: Coffee, bread and butter, beefsteak, breakfast bacon or shoulder, potatoes, 
stewed apples. 

Dinner: Soup, roast beef, potatoes, tomatoes (canned or fresh), pie or pudding. 
Supper: Coffee or tea, bread and butter, beef and salt meat, potatoes. 



THURSDAY. 



Breakfast: Coffee, bread and butter, beefsteak, potatoes, fried or stewed. 
Dinner: Soup, mess beef and cabbage or other vegetables in season, potato 
pudding. 

Supper: Coffee or tea, bread and butter, beef (salt or fresh), potatoes, stewed apples, 



bread 



Breakfast: Coffee, bread, corn bread, butter, beefsteak, potatoes. 
Dinner: Vegetable soup, codfish, potatoes, macaroni, bread or rice pudding. 
Supper: Coffee or tea, bread and butter, cheese, oatmeal or grits, potatoes, stewed 
peaches. 

SATURDAY. 

Breakfast: Coffee, bread and butter, beefsteak, potatoes. 

Dinner: Soup, salt pork and baked beans, beef, potatoes, pudding. 

Supper: Coffee or tea, bread and butter, shoulder, mush, potatoes. 



58 



EEGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 



Appendix B. 

Lists of blank forms, stationery, and medicines furnished by this 
office for use in the improvement of the Mississippi River between 
the Ohio and Missouri rivers. 

Assistants will make requisitions for these supplies, separate from 
other articles, on Forms 703, 704 (par. 1001c, par. 1205), and will 
use these forms for invoices and receipts (par. 1205d). 

Should any of these supplies remain on hand at the close of the 
working season they will be returned to the officer in charge. 



.gross bands, rubber, No. 17. 

.gross bands, rubber, No. 50. 

.gross bands, rubber, No. 0^. 

.blocks, scratch, No. 4026. 

.blocks, scratch, No. 4028. 

.blocks, scratch, No. 4030. 

.books, blank, 8 by 13 inches. 

.books, copy, large. 

.books, copy, letter size. 

.books, memorandum, 5£ by 8i 
inches. 

.books, memorandum, flap. 

.clips, Niagara. 

.yards cloth, tracing. 

.crayons, lumber (red, green). 

.erasers, circular, No. 1080. 

.erasers, ink and pencil. 

.erasers, ruby. 

.envelopes, penalty, plain. 

.envelopes, add. officer in charge. 

.envelopes, add. superintendent of 
depot. 

.files, gum stub. 

.bottles ink, copy. 

.bottles ink, drawing, Higgin's. 

.bottles ink, red. 

.bottles ink, writing. 

.bottles mucilage, with brush. 

.bottles oil, typewriter. 

.sheets paper, blotting. 

. sheets paper, carbon, ink and pen- 
cil. 

.sheets paper, carbon, typewriter. 

.yards paper, drawing, paragon. 

.sheets paper, foolscap, ordinary. 

.sheets paper, foolscap, quadrille. 

.sheets paper, letter, plain ruled. 

.sheets paper, letter, typewriter, 
plain. 

.sheets paper, letter, typewriter, 
headed. 

.sheets paper, oil board. 

.yards paper, tracing. 

.sheets paper, wrapping. 

.pencils, Koh-i-noor, B. 

.pencils, Koh-i-noor, H B. 

.pencils, Koh-i-noor, F. 

.pencils, Koh-i-noor, 2 H. 

.pencils, Koh-i-noor, 3 H. 

.pencils, Koh-i-noor, 4 H. 

.pencils, Koh-i-noor, 6 H. 

.pencils, Mercantile, No. 2. 

.pencils, red and blue. 



.penholders, "Crown." 

.penholders, "Korka." 

.pens, Gillott's, No. 170. 

.pens, Gillott's, No. 262. 

.pens, Gillott's, No. 290. 

.gross pens, Gillott's, No. 303. 

.gross pens, Gillott's, No. 404. 

.pens, Gillott's, No. 659, Crowquill. 

.gross pens, Esterbrook's Falcon, 
No. 048. 

.gross pens, Esterbrook's No. 135. 

.pens, Esterbrook's manifold. 

.pens, Keuffel & Esser, No. 3202. 

.pins, Pyramids. 

.ribbons, typewriter, copy. 

.tacks, thumb (small, large). 

.pints arnica. 

.boxes bandages, 2-inch. 

.boxes bandages, bichloride gauze. 

.capsules, empty, 3-grain. 

.capsules, empty, 5-grain. 

.pints castor oil. 

.pounds cotton, absorbent. 

.pints diarrhoea mixture. 

.bottles lead, acetate. 

.bottles liniment, chloroform. 

.bottles oil, Porter's antiseptic heal- 
ing. 

.yards plaster, court. 

.yards plaster, mustard. 

.pills, compound cathartic. 

.ounces quinine. 

. bottles vaseline. 

PAY AND EMPLOYMENT. 

. foreman's time book Form 201 

.office time book Form 202 

.time sheets Form 203 

. consolidated return of em- 
ployees Form 204 

.time checks, foreman's. . Form 211 
.time checks, official 

(books) Form 212 

.signature cards Form 213 

.application for leave. . . .Form 214 
.application for furlough.. Form 215 

.pay receipts .Form 221 

. pay check receipts Form 222 

.pay envelopes Form 223 

.change lists Form 224 

.distribution of labor 

(books) Form 231 

.team bills (brush) Form 241 



REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 



59 



CIVIL SERVICE. 

..changes of civil service 

employees Form 

SURVEYS AND PHYSICAL DATA. 

. .triangulation adjustment. Form 
..quadrilateral adjustment Form 
. .computation of triangle. .Form 

..computation. L. M. Z Form 

..geographical positions. . .Form 
..triangulation catalogue 

card Form 

..receipts for maps, books, 

etc Form 

. . transit book Form 

. .topographical sketch 

book Form 

. .level book Form 

. .gauge inspection report. .Form 
. -gauge readings Form 



.operations, trimonthly. . .Form 

.work done, table of Form 

.material received, trans- 
ferred, and expended ..Form 

.service of plant Form 

.service of towboats Form 

.daily, works of construc- 
tion 

.daily, log and soundings, 

steamers Form 

. daily, log of dredge Form 

.daily, material loaded. ..Form 
.daily, work done, pile 

drivers Form 

.daily, foreman's, general. Form 
.daily, foreman's, quarry. Form 
.barge tickets (books) .... Form 

. towage of plant Form 

. field cost of work Form 

PROPERTY. 



301 



Form 511 



512 
513 
514 

521 

522 
523 
531 
532 
541 



.1. & R., general Form 601 

.req., I. & R., tools and ap- 
pliances Form 602 

.req., I. & R., boarding 

outfit Form 603 

. property return books . . . Form 613 

.return, tools and appli- 
ances, foreman Form 621 

.return, boarding outfit, 

steward's Form 622 

.property, lost, destroyed, 

etc Form 631 

.laundry lists Form 641 



MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES. 

requisitions, general Form 701 

req., I. & R., materials .. Form 702 

req., I. & R., stationery 
and medicines Form 703 

req., 1. & R., blank 
forms Form 704 

reports of material re- 
ceived Form 711 

measurements of mate- 
rial, barges Form 721 

measurements of mate- 
rial, record Form 722 

material received, ex- 
pended, and on hand. .Form 723 

bills of lading Form 741 

dray tickets Form 742 

SUBSISTENCE AND QUARTERS. 



.req., I. &. R., general Form 801 

.req., I. & R., special .... Form 802 

.report, subsistence, 

monthly, general Form 811 

.report, subsistence, 

monthly, special Form 812 

.diagram of quarters Form 821 

.tickets locating employ- 
ees Form 822 

.poster inviting proposals. Form 831 

.orders for vegetables (de- 
pot) Form 832 

.orders for meat ("depot). . Form 833 

.orders for supplies, field 

use Form 834 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

. passes Form 901 

. traveling receipts Form 911 

.agreement to sell brush. .Form 941 
. long distance telephone 

advice Form 951 



.report of operations Form 1001 

. list of snags destroyed . . . Form 1011 
.list of snags destroyed, 

books. . „ Form 1012 

ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. 

. vouchers for supplies .... Form 8 
. vouchers for services, 

monthly Form 8b 

.vouchers for services, 

daily Form 8c 

. pay rolls, large Form 11 

...Form 12 



pay rolls, small. 

personal service cards Form 29 



60 



REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 



Appendix C. 

Code of signals. 



Colors to be displayed. 



Signification. 



All right 

Interview 

Help 

Empty barge 



Brush or mattress 
lumber. 

Piles 

Fuel 

Stone 

Cement 



White above white 

Red above white above 
red. 

Red above red 

White above green 



No wants. 

Steamer to land at point indicated, if practicable. 



Imminent danger, services of steal 

On a barge at the works indicates it is empty and ready for 
removal; at a loading point, that an empty barge should 
be left at that point. 

Green That a barge loaded with this material .should be left at this 

point; on a barge loaded with this material, that it should 
be moved to a point indicated by a duplicate signal, 

Green above green That a barge or raft of piles should be left at that point; on a 

raft of, or barge loaded with piles, thai 11 should be moved 
| to the point indicated by the duplicate signal. 

Red above white I That a barge loaded with fuel should be left at that point; on 

\ a barge of fuel, that it should be moved to a point indicated 
by a duplicate signal. 

White above red On the bank shows that a barge load of stone should be left 

at that point; on a barge loaded with stone shows that the 
barge should be moved to a point indicated by a duplicate 
signal. 
Green above red That a supply of cement should be left at that point. 



Appendix D. 

Reports and other papers required of assistants in the field. 



Special papers when required: 

Difficulties, etc 

Accidents 

Use of telegraph 

Use of long-distance telephone 

Changes in classified service 

Personal service card, when required 

Changes in channel 

Paid rolls 

Time sheet for above 

Copies of I. and R. for permanent property 

Memorandum of property from surplus 

Report of locations of steamers 

Plant towed, steamers 

Periodical reports each day: 

Report of work done 

Saturday of each week: 

Requisitions for subsistence stores 

Gauge report 

On tenth of each month: 

Requisitions for general supplies 

On tenth, twentieth, and last of each month: 

Trimonthly report with inclosures 

At close of month: 

Pay rolls 

Consolidated return of employees 

Signatures of nonpayments . .' 

Check receipt list ..'. 

Report of material received 

Table of work done 

Report of subsistence : 

List of snags 

End of half year: 

Semiannual report with inclosures 

Table of work done 

Report of material 

Report of plant 

Report of lost property 

Affidavits of lost property 

At close of season: 

Report of condition of plant 

On or before January 10: 

Return of property 

April 1: 

List of unserviceable property for Mississippi and snags 

Certificate of broken china 

Certificate of 



Paragraph. 



104 

100 

205 

200 

10-', 70S 

602 a, 605-5 d 
605-6 a, 708. 

1109 b 

907 a 

902. 911 b 

1205 a 

1204a 

1108 d 

1102 i 

401 

804 

1407 g 

1001 

402 

907 b 

910 

707,909a 

911 

L008, L304-... 

402 

S07 

405 

402 

402 

1304b 

1104 

1207 

1207 1) 

402, 1HM b. .. 

1202 

1308 b. ... 

1208d 

1208g 



Letter. 
Do. 



Letter. 

11. 



Letter, etc. 

532. 



801-2 (depot). 
442. 

60S- 3 and 701 to 4. 

501. 

11,203. 

204. 

213. 

711. 
502. 
811-12. 

1011. 



Letter. 



Letter. 
612-13. 



Letter, depot. 
Do. 
Do. 



REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 

Appendix E. 

Reference to form numbers in these regulations. 



61 



Paragraphs of regulations. 



PAY AXD EMPL' 



Foreman's time book 

Office time book 

Time sheets 

Consolidated return of employees. 
Time checks: 

Foreman's 

Official (books) 

Signature cards 

Requests for— 

Leave of absence 

Furloughs 

Furloughs 

Pay receipts 

Pay-check receipts 

Pay envelopes 

Change lists 

Distribution of labor (books) 

Team bills (brush) 



CTVIL SERVICE. 

Changes of civil-service employees. . 



>UP.YEYS AXD PHYSICAL DATA. 



Triangulation adjustment 

Quadrilateral adjustment 

Computation of triangle 

Computation, L. M.Z 

Geographical positions 

Triangulation catalogue card . 

Memorandum receipts 

Transit book 

Topographical sketch book. . . 

Level book 

Gauge inspection report 

Gauge reports 

Gauge books 



REPORTS. 



Operations, trimonthly 

Work done, table of 

Material received, transferred, and expended . 

Services of plant 

Service of towboats 

Daily, works of construction 

Daily, log and soundings, steamers 

Daily, log of dredge 

Mate's report, dredge 

Engineer's report, dredge 

Daily, material loaded 

Daily, work done, pile drivers 

Daily, foreman's, general 

Daily, foreman's, quarry 

Barge tickets (books) 

Towage of plant 

Field cost of works 



PROPERTY. 

I. & R., general 

Req., I. & R., tools and appliances. 

Req., I. & R., boarding outfit 

Property return 



Property return books 

Return, tools and appliances, foreman. 

Return, boarding outfit, steward's 

Property, lost, destroyed, etc 

Property, lost, affidavits 

Laundry lists 



401 
40'.' 
403 
404 

405 
411 
413 
421 

422 

431 
441 
442 
444 



301,710,902. 

301,710,902. 

711, 715,901, Appendix D. 

910, Appendix D. 



Appendix D. 



90S, 913, 915. 
707,712,802,91 

107,716. 

611-1. 

611-1. 

911. 

911, Appendix D. 

911 e. 

911 d. 

301,501,710,1102,1104. 

919 a, 1007. 



40(5, 601, 603-3, 005-5, 605-6, 607, 608, 610, 
611-1, 611-2, 611-4, 708, 709, Appendix D. 



1606,1706. 



1405,1406. 

1407 a, Appendix D. 

1407 a. 



405, 402, Appendix D. 

301, 402, Appendix D. 

403, 1304, Appendix D . 

402,501,1104,403. 

403. 

301 , 302, 401 ,715, Appendix D . 

301, 302, 401, 403, 715, 1109, Appendix D . 

301, 302, 401, 404, 715, Appendix D. 

404, 408. 

404. 

301, 408, Appendix D. 

408, 1102 f, g. 

301,408. 

408. 

1103. 

403,1102,1104, Appendix D. 

402. 



1205, Appendix D. 

1001, 1205, Appendix D. 

1001, 1205, Appendix D. 

301, 402, 403, 405, 1007, 1202, 1303, Ap- 
pendix D. 

301, 402, 403, 405, 1007, 1202, 1303, Ap- 
pendix D. 

1206. 

1206. 

402, 403, 405, 1207, Appendix D. 

Appendix D. 

810. 



62 REGULATIONS FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK. 

Reference to form numbers in these regulations — Continued. 



MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES. 



Requisitions, general 

Req., I. &.R., materials 

Req., I. & R., stationery and medicine 

Req., I. & R., blank forms 

Reports of material received 

Measurements of material, barges 

Measurements of material, record 

Material received, expended, and on hand. 

Bills of lading 

Dray tickets 



SUBSISTENCE AND QUARTERS. 



Req., I. & R., general 

Req., I. &. R., special 

Report, subsistence, monthly, general. 
Report, subsistence, monthly, special. 

Diagram of quarters 

Tickets locating employees 

Poster inviting proposals 

Orders for vegetables (depot) 

Orders for meat (depot) 

Orders for supplies, field use 



MISi ELLAXEOUS. 



Traveling receipts 

Agreement to sell brush 

Long-distance telephone advice 

Record of inspection of steam boilers. 



SNAGS. 



Report of operations 

List of snags destroyed 

List of snags destroyed, books. 



ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. 



Vouchers for supplies 

Vouchers for services, monthly . 

Vouchers for services, daily 

Pay rolls, large 



Payrolls, small 

Personal service cards. 



Accidental injuries 



Marine hospital. 

Letters 

Telegrams 



Paragraphs of regulations. 



701 1001, Appendix I). 

702 1001,120.5, Appendix D. 

703 1001,1 205.. \pprndixesB, D. 

704 1001, 1205, Appendixes B. D. 
7ii S'U.iiKis.isin, \ppendbi D. 

721 1302. 

722 301,1303. 
72:< 301,501,1303. 
7U 1204 b, 1306. 
742 1204 c, 1300. 



sol sol, 1001, 1205, Appendixes A,D. 
802 I 801,1001,120.5, Appendixes A, D. 
811 402, 403,405, 807, Appendix D. 

M2 102. 403, 40.5. 809, Appendix D. 

821 

822 802. 

1003. 

1004 a. 

1004 a. 

1004. 



1703. 
911 1502. 
941 1305. 

951 20ii,400, Appendix D. 
901 1106. 



1001 405. 

1011 40.5. Appendix I>. 

1012 " 



906,913. 

71 L 901, 902, 903, 904, 905, 906, 907. 909, 911 

Appendix D. 
711,901,902,903,904,905,900,907,909,911. 
002 a. 1,0.5-5 d, 005-6 a, 70S, Appendix D. 
107,108,406. 
107. 
107. 
107. 
107. 
109. 

202,405,400. Appendix 1>. 
20.5, 400, 1110. 
706. 
706. 
706. 



12 
29 
C.A. 1 
C.A. 4a 
C.A. 2a 
C.A. 
C.A.loa 
1915 



INDEX. 



Absence: Par. 

Leaves of 716 

St. Louis office 1602 

Of officer in charge 102 

Abstract of proposals in the field 1003 

Accidents: 

Injuries to employees 107-108 

Precautions against 105 

To employees and property to be reported ' 106 

Accounts, labor and material 501 

Addresses, employees in St. Louis office » 1603 

field 707 

Advertisements for proposals in field 1003 

Affidavits : 

Lost property 1207 b 

Traveling expenses 1502 b e 

Agreements for hire of employees 707 

cutting brush 1305 

Alterations of plant, authority required 1105 

Annual Report 402 

Applicants for civil-service examination, instructions to prohibited 612 

medical examination of 606 

Appointments of employees 602 a, 605-5 

Assessments, political, prohibited 721 

Assigned claims can not be paid to assignee 113 a 

Assignees, payment to prohibited 918 

Assistant engineer, principal, to give instructions during absence of officer in 

charge 102 

Assistants, authority of, etc 101 

Attachments of claims can not be enforced 918 

Authority, for experiments Ill 

required for alterations of plant 1105 

employments 701 

purchases in field 1002 b 

Barges, record of service 1102 

Barge tickets, use of 1103 

Bars, river, to be sounded 1109 

Bills, requirements as to rendition, certificate, etc., of creditors and assistants. 1007 

for labor or service not personal 919 

of fare for subsistence of employees App. A 

lading 1204 b c, 1306 

Blank forms: 

List of App. B 

Requisitions, invoices, and receipts 1205 d 

Boilers, care of 1106 

inspection of 1106 

Books and papers, St. Louis office, to be loaned to assistants 1706 

Broken china and glassware, certificates for 1208 c e 

Brush, agreements for cutting 1305 

measurements 1302^ 

Brushes, brooms, etc., certificates for worn out 1208 f g 

Buoys, channel 1702 

Care of boilers 1106 

plant 1111 

towboats 1107 

63 



64 INDEX. 

Par. 

Cash, advanced for payment of employees 914 

requisition for 914 b 

paid rolls 907, 911, 912 

to be protected 914 d 

Catalogues, for official use 306 

Certificates of assistants on bills 1007, 1008 

creditors on bills 1007 

for boiler inspections 1106 

lost property 1207 

hospital service 109 a 

on pay rolls and personal-service vouchers, by assistants 906 

time rolls for half holiday on Saturdays during July, August, 

and September 715 c 

physicians, account injury 107 b 

Changes in plant, authority required 1105 

location of plant to be reported 1104 

Channel buoys 1702 

Charges for plant service to works, etc 502 

Checks for payment to employees 911, 912 

Civil service Sec. V I 

Applicants, employees not to instruct ' 612 

Appointments 605-5 

Assignments to similar duties 610 

different grades 609 

Changes in pay or grade 607 

Classification under 604 

Cooks 603-3 

Discharge .• 611-4 

Educational positions 603-1 

Emergency employment 605-6 

Furloughs 611-1 

Instructions to applicants prohibited 612 

Laid off 611-2 

Local board lists furnished assistants 605-5 

Medical examination 606 

Methods of selection 605 

Persons ineligible for examination 605-6 

Positions covered by 601 

Promotions 605-4 

Reduction in grade 605-1 

Reemployments 605-3 

Registered positions 603-2 

Reports of changes 602 

Resignations 611-3 

Restorations to former grades 605-2 

Separations from service 611 

Transfers of employees between assistants 608 

Unclassified positions 603-3 

Claims against the United States 113 

assignment of 113 a 

employees not to be interested in 113 

Classification of materials 1301 

plant .- 1 101 

Coal, measurement of , 1302 

Code of signals Api> C 

Combinations of safes L706 

Computation of t ime 902 d 

Construction works, expenses •"■< 1 1 

Cooks, appointment and employment of 603-3 a 

Correspondence Sec 1 1 

File to be kept 204 

Form of letters 202 

With other officers 20 1 

Continuously and regularly employed, defined 716 

Contracts: 

Bills and certificates for purchases under 1008 

Employees for employment 707 



INDEX. 65 

Par. 

Creditors, payments made only to 918 

Crews required on steamers and towboats 1107 

Daily journal of operations 302 

record of service of plant 1102 

reports 401 

Damaged time checks 917 

Datum, St. Louis, levels and elevations referred to 1401 

Day of eight hours 711 

Death of employees to be reported 107 

Deceased employees, effects of 107 g 

Deductions for lost property 1207 a 

Diagram of quarters 803 

Difficulties and misunderstandings to be reported 104 

Directions of towboats and steamers 1108 

Directrix, St. Louis city 1401 

Disabled seamen admitted to United States Marine Hospital 109 

Discharge of employees 611-4 

Distribution of labor and material 501-4 

Division of river, gauge references 1402 

Divisions of work and accounts Sec. V 

Double rates of pay for time in excess of eight hours a day 711 c 

Doubt as to intent of regulations to be reported 103 

Drawings, notes, etc., to be filed 305 

in St. Louis office in charge of draftsman 1606 

Dredges: 

Record of service of 1102 a 

Reports required 404 

Economy enjoined Ill 

Educational employees 603-1 

Effects of deceased employees 107 g 

Eight hours a ' ' day " 711 

Eight-hour law, employees excepted from 711 

Elections, interfering with, prohibited 720 

Eligible list of local board furnished assistants 605-5 

Emergency use of United States property and material 112 

employment 605-6 

on Saturdays in July, August, and September 715 b 

purchases 1002 a 

Employees, civil-service: 

Appointment 605-5 

Assignment to different grade 609 

similar duties 610 

Changes in pay or grade 607 

Classification 604 

Cooks 603-3 a 

Discharge 611-4 

Educational positions 603-1 

Emergency employment 605-6 

Furloughs'. 611-1 

Instructions to applicants prohibited 612 

Laid off 611-2 

Methods of selection 605 

Medical examination 606 

Positions covered by 601 

Positions under 603 

Promotions 605-4 

Reductions in grade 605-1 

Reemployments 605-3 

Registered positions , 603-2 

Reports of changes 602 

Resignations 611-3 

Restorations to former grade 605-2 

Separations from service 611 

Transfer between assistants 608 

Unclassified positions 603-3 

46671—10 5 



66 INDEX. 

Par. 
Employees: 

Accidents to, to be reported 107, 108 

Addresses, St. Louis office 1603 

field 707 

Agreements for employment 707 

Authority to hire 701 

Computation of time 902 d 

Deductions for lost property 1207 a 

Educational 603-1 

Eight hours a "day' ' 711 

Eligible list of local board furnished assistants 605-5 

Exceptions from eight-hour law ' 711 

Effects of deceased 107 g 

Grades of, designated 702 

Holidays 714 

Injuries to, to be reported 107, 108 

Incapacitated for work to be reported 108 

Leaves of absence 716 

Method of determining rate of day's wages 711 g 

Not to be interested in claims against the United States 113 

Not to give information 114 

Pay for half holidays on Saturdays in July, August, and September 715 

Pay can not be attached 918 

Paid by either individual checks or cash *. 911-914 

Political activity of, prohibited .' 719-722 

Precautions against accidents to 105 

Prohibited from giving or receiving gifts 718 

Prohibited from soliciting increase of pay 717 

Purchases from, prohibited 1006 

Quarters and subsistence 801-803 

Regularly and continuously employed, defined 716 

Required to have licenses 704 

Returns of, monthly 910 

Seamen admitted to United States Marine Hospital 109 

Selection of 703 

Service vouchers ' ■ 913 

Sick leaves 716 

Teamsters with teams 919 

Travel of 1501-2 

Subsistence and quarters 801-803 

Sunday and holiday work 712-715 

Time in excess of eight hours to be stated on separate line of rolls 711 c 

Time check pay rolls for 915 

Transfers of, between assistants 709 a 

Travel on United States boats 1703 

Tuberculosis sufferers not to be employed 706 

Vaccination 705 

Violations of acts relating to political activity 721 

Vouchers for services of 913 

Employees rates of pay: 

By classes under civil-service regulations 604 

For work in excess of eight hours per day 711 c 

four hours on Saturdays in July, August, and Sep- 
tember ' 715 

on Sundays 713 a 

Employees working by the day or hour are not entitled to leave with pay 716 c 

Employment: 

Methods of 605 

Reports req uired 70S 

Envelopes, penalty, use of 1708 

Erasures on pay rolls no I 

Expenditures of labor and material accounts 501 

Expenses of construction works 504 

E xaminations, medical 606 

Expenses of material 503 

plant 502 



INDEX. 67 

Tar. 

Experiments authorized Ill 

Express packages not to be valued 1 707 

transportation 1710 

Extinguishers, fire: 

Dee of, on plant 1111 e 

To be inspected 110 

Extraordinary emergency, defined 711 a 

Extraordinary emergencies, use of property and labor in, to be reported . . 112, 711 b 

Extra pay of employees for work in excess of eight hours per day 711 

February, calculation of time for 902 d 6 

File of letters to be kept by assistants 204 

maps to be kept by assistants 305 

Fire, precautions against 110 

extinguishers and apparatus to be inspected 110 

use on plant of 1111 

and lights 1111 b 

Foremen's reports required daily 408 

Forms of construction work 501 

Freight, transportation by 1710 

Funds: 

Requisitions for 914 b 

For payment of employees 914 

Protection of 914 d 

Furloughs of employees 611-1 

Gauges, surveys, physical data Sec. XV 

Gauge heights for constructions 1402 

zeros and approximate equivalent readings of gauges 1402 

records on maps 1403 

Gauges : 

Gradation of 1404 

Bench marks 1405 

Inspection 1406 

Observers of, instructions for reading 1407 

Garnishee of employee's pay 918 

Gifts, giving or receiving, prohibited 718 

Grades of employees to be indicated in request to employ 702 

Guards for protection of funds 914 d 

Half holidays on Saturdays in July, August, and September 715 

Half holidays: 

Allowance of pay for 715 a, b 

Certificate on time rolls relating to 715 c 

Emergency work on ' 715 b 

Employees divided into two classes regarding work on 712 

Observance of to be stated in daily reports 715 d 

Holidays: 

To"be charged in sick leaves , 716 d 

Emergency work on 713 a 

Employees divided into two classes regarding work on 712 

Falling on Sundays, day to be observed 714 a 

List of 714 

Observance of to be stated in daily reports 715 d 

Pay for 714 b 

Hospital service 109 

Illness: 

Absence of employees on account of 716 

Seamen admitted to United States Marine Hospital on account of 109 

On account of employment to be reported 108 

Incapacity for work due to employment to be reported 108 

Inclosures in letters and reports to be stated 203 

Indorsements required on duplicate copies of bills .' 1007 

Ineligible persons for civil-service examination 605-6 

Information regarding claims and government work; employees prohibited to 

give 113-114 

Injuries to employees to be reported 107-108 

and property to be reported 105 

Inspection of boilers ' '. 1106 



68 IWBEX. 

Par. 

Inspection of gauges 1406 

property 1203 

quarters 809 

supplies L006 

Instructions, doubt as to 103 

Inventory of effects of deceased employees 107 g 

Instruction of civil-service applicants prohibited 6 1 2 

Instruments, survey and drawing, accidents to and repairs needed to be reported Il'ii'i 

Intent of regulations, doubt as to, to be submitted to officer in charge 103 

•Invoices and receipts for property 1205 

Issues of subsistence, regular days for indicated 805 

Journal of operations to be kept daily 302 

Journeys of employees •. Sec. XV 

Labor: 

Economy in use of Ill 

Eight hours 711 

Record of 7 1 < > 

Labor and employment Sec. V 1 1 

material accounts 501 

Laid-off employees 61 1-2 

Laundry work for quarters, etc 810 

Leaves of absence with pay 716 

not authorized for employees working by the day. 

hour, or piece 7 In c 

Legal proceedings, difficulties leading to, to be reported 104 

Levels, reference plane for 1401 

Length of working day eight hours 711 

Letters, assistants to keep file of 204 

Letters and reports, form of 202 

Letters of transmittal, inclosures to be stated 203 

Library, St. Louis office, for use of assistants 1706 

Licenses required by certain employees 704 

Life, use of property to save 112 

Lights on obstructions 1 701 

and fires on plant 1111 b 

Loan of plant 112 a 

Location of snagboats to be reported 1110 

steamboats and towboats to be reported 1 108 d 

plant, report of changes in 1104 a 

Long-distance telephone, use of 206 

Lost property to be reported 1207 

Low-water standard, 4 feet on St. Louis gauge 402 b 

Lumber, mattress, measurement of 1302—1 

Machinery and appliances to be kept in order 105 

Mail, official: 

Instructions regarding 1708-9 

Registered 1709 

Maps: 

Gauge records on 1403 

Progress, constructions located on 304 

In St. Louis office, in charge of draftsman 1606 

Tracings, etc., required with monthly reports 402 

Marine Hospital, United States, seamen admitted to 109 

Materials Sec. XIII 

Classification of 1301 

Economy in use of Ill 

Expense of 503 

Measurement of 1302 

records of 1303 

Transfer of 1306. 1205 b 

Material and labor account 501 

Mattress lumber, measurement of 1 302-4 

Measurement of materials 1302 

Medical examination of applicants 606 

Medicines: 

Requisitions, invoices, and receipts 1205 d 

List of ApP- B 



INDEX. 69 

Par. 

Memorandum receipts for property 1204 c 

Miscellaneous Sec. XVII 

Misunderstanding of regulations to be submitted to officer in charge 104 

Money, for payment of employees 911, 912, 914 

paid to creditors only 918 a 

Names of works to be ascertained by assistants 505 

Nonpayment employees, time rolls required 909 

Notaries public, affidavits to lost property 1207 b 

traveling vouchers 1502 b, e 

Notes, drawings, etc., to be filed and indexed 305 

Obstructions to be lighted at night 1701 

Official communications to be addressed to officer in charge 201 

Office holding, political, prohibited 722 

Office hours, St. Louis office 1601 

Official mail, transmittal of _ _ 1708-9 

Officer in charge, during temporary absence of, instructions will be given by 

principal assistant engineer 102 

Open-market purchases, orders to be given for 1004 

certificate of assistants required 1007 a 

Orders for purchases 1004 

Passes, for travel on United States boats 1703 

Pay accounts Sec. IX 

Pay of employees: 

Calculation of time for February 902 d 6 

Cash or individual checks 911-914 

Computation of ' 902 a 

Garnishee of 918 

Rates by classes under civil-service regulations 604 

for days wages 711 g 

work in excess of eight hours per day 711 

four hours on Saturdays in July, August, and 

September 715 

work on Sundays 713 a 

Soliciting increase of, prohibited 717 

Pay rolls: 

* Cash paid 907 

Details of 903 

Erasures 904 

Paid by cash or checks 911-14 

Signatures 905 

Transmittal of 907 

Where made 901 

Service vouchers, certificates of assistants required 906 

Signatures in blank prohibited 905 d 

Payments to creditors only 918 

assignees, no authority therefor 113 a 

Penalty envelopes for official use 1708 

Personal service only to be paid on rolls and service vouchers 901 a 

Personal-service cards, appointment of employees 602 a 

Periodical reports required 402 

and special reports to be forwarded promptly 407 

Physical data, surveys and gauges Sec. XIV 

Pile measurements 1302-4 

Pile drivers, record of service 1102 g 

Plant alterations, authority required for 1105 

Plant classification Sec. XI 

Plant: 

Boilers to be inspected yearly 1106 

Care of HIT 

Changes of location to be reported 1104 a 

Condition of to be reported 1104 b 

Distribution of expenses for 502 

Daily record of service 1102 

Loan of 112 a 

Repairs needed, to be reported 1104 b 

Service of, to be charged to work or material 502 b 

semiannual reports of 1104 



70 INDEX. 

Bn^ii- Par. 

Political activity of employees forbidden 719-722 

Postage stamps for registered mail 907 a 

Precautions against accidents 105 

fire lid 

for protection of funds 914 d 

Principal assistant engineer to give instructions during absence of officer in 

charge 102 

Private property, consent of owner to be obtained for use of 1704 

Procuring supplies Sec. X 

Progress map, construction work to be shown on 304 

Prohibitions: 

Assistance in preparing proposals for bidders 1003 b 

Employees giving or receiving gifts 71s 

Employee's interest in claims 113 

Employment of persons having tuberculosis 706 

Erasures on rolls 904 

Fabricating articles and transferring property 1001 b 

Furnishing names of prospective bidders 1003 b 

Information to newspapers, etc 114 

Instructing civil-service applicants 612 

Insurance of property 1707 

Loan of plant 112 a 

Mailing packages over 4 pounds 1708 

Payments to any but creditors 918 

Political activity , 719-722 

Private use of property 1704 

Publishing information 114 

Purchases from employees 1006 

Purchases of certain articles 1002 c 

Signatures to pay rolls and vouchers in blank 905, 905 d 

Soliciting increase of pay 717 

Use of freight and express 1710 

Valuing of express packages 1707 

Promotions of employees 605-4 

Property Sec. XII 

Accidents to be reported 106 

Accountability 1201 

Bills for or containing 1007 

Broken, worn-out, or unserviceable L208 

Inspection 1203 

Instruments 1209 

Insurance of 1707 

Invoices and receipts 1205 

Loan of 112 a 

Lost . 1207 

Precautions against accident 105 

Private, use of 1704 

Public, emergency use to save life 112 

Records 1202 

Receipts, foremen's 1206 

Returns of 1202 

Transfers 1204 

Unserviceable 1208 a 

Proposals for purchases in the field 1003 

assistance in preparation for bidders prohibited 1003 b 

Punishment for violating acts relating to political activity, etc 721 

instructing civil-service applicants 612 

Purchases : 

Contracts and proposals 1004 a 

Emergency, in the field 1002 a 

Subsistence in the field 806 

Authority for 1002 

From employees prohibited 1006 

Open market 1004 

Orders for 1004 

Proposals for, to be obtained 1003 

St. Louis office 1002 



INDEX. 71 

Par. 

Quarters and subsistence Sec. VIII 

Quarters: 

Assignment of employees to 802 

Diagram of " 803 

Duties of stewards 808 

Inspection of, by assistants 809 

Laundry work for 810 

Restricted to authorized employees 801 

Rates of pay, employees: 

For work in excess of eight hours per day 711 c 

By classes under civil service regulations 604 

For work in excess of four hours on Saturdays during July, August, and 

September 715 

For work on Sundays 713 a 

Method of determining daily wages 711 g 

Receipts and invoices for property 1204-1206 

Records Sec. Ill 

Certain, to be sent to engineer depot 301 a 

Labor 710 

List of those to be kept 301 

Gauge, on maps 1403 

Material measurements 1303 

Propertv « 1202 

St. Louis office 1605 

Reductions in grade 605-1 

Reemployments 605-3 

Registered employees 603-2 

Registered mail 1709 

Registry postage stamps 907 a 

Regularly and continuously employed, defined 716 b 

Repairs to plant, authority required 1105 

Reference: 

Gauge 1402 

Plane 1401 

Reports , Sec. IV 

Accidents to employees and property 106 

At close of season 401 

Civil service changes 406, 601 , 

603-3, 605-5, 605-6, 607, 608, 610, 611-1, 611-2, 611-A, 708, 709 

Daily, of operations 401 

dredges 404 

Dredges 404 

Employment 708 

Excess of four hours' labor on Saturdays in July, August, and September . . . 715 b 

• Foremen's 408 

Injuries to employees. 107 

Measurements of material 1303, 

Periodical 402 

Semiannual 402 

Service of plant, semiannual 1104 

Snag boats 405 

Special 406 

Subsistence 807 

Towboats 403 

Trimonthly 402 

Transfer of employees to other assistants 709 a 

Violations of eight-hour law 711 

Written, form of 202 

Requisitions : 

Funds 914 b 

Subsistence ... 804 

Supplies f. . 1001 

Resignations 611-3 

Responsibility, general requirements, etc Sec. I 

Restorations to former grades 605-2 



72 INDEX. 

Returns: Par. 

Employees 910 

Property 1202 

Subsistence 807 

River divisions, reference gauge : 1402 

Rooms, St. Louis office 1604 

Safe combinations: 

Assistants to know 914 d 

Required 1705 

Salaries by classes, under civil-service regulations 602 

Saturday half-holiday in July, August, and September 715 

Selection of employees 703 

Separations from civil-service positions 611, 61 11. -'. 3, 1 

Service not personal, paid on bills and vouchers 919 

personal, to be paid on rolls and service vouchers 901 a 

Semiannual reports of operations 402 

plant service 1104 

Service of plant, semiannual report of plant service 1104 

Sick seamen admitted to United States Marine Hospital 109 

Sick leaves, employees 716 

Signals, steamboats and towboats, code of App. C, 1108 

Signatures in blank prohibited 905 d 

employees on pay rolls 905 

Sketches accompanying monthly reports 402, 402 b, c 

Smallpox, certificate of vaccination 705 

Snag boats: 

Disposition of unserviceable property on 1208 h 

Reports of 405 

location by telegraph or telephone 1110 

Soliciting increase of pay prohibited 717 

Sounding of river bars by steamboats 1109 

Soundings reduced to standard low water 402 b 

Special reports required 406, 407 

Stamps, registry 907 a 

Stationery: 

List of App. B 

Invoices and receipts for 1205 d 

Standard low water, 4 feet on St. Louis gauge 402 b 

Steamboats: 

Crews required on 1107 

Direction of 1108 

Reports of location 1 108 d 

Record of service 1102 a 

' Reports 403 

To sound river bars 1109 

Telegraph and telephone stations 1110 

Steam tenders, record of service 1102 f 

Stewards, duties of 808 

Stone measurement 1302 

St. Louis datum, levels and elevations referred to NO 1 

St. Louis office Sec. X V 1 

Absence of employees 1602 

Addresses of employees 1603 

Hours of 1601 

Library, use of books, etc 1706 

Maps and drawings 1606 

Records 1605 

Rooms 1604 

Subsistence and quarters 801, 809 

Subsistence: 

Daily bill of fare App. A 

Invoices and receipts 804 e 

Issue of 805 

Purchases in the field 806 

Restricted to employees 801 

Returns 807 

Requisitions 804 



INDEX. 73 

Subsistence — Continued. Par. 

Stewards ' duties 808 

Supervision of assistant 809 

Table of allowances App. A 

Sundays and holidays, employees in two classes, regarding work on 712 

Sunday work, employees 713, 713 a 

Sundays: 

To be charged in sick leave 716 

Holidays falling on, day to be observed 714 a 

Supplies: 

Inspection by assistants 1005 

Open-market purchases 1004 

Procuring Sec. X 

Requisitions for 1001 

Purchase of 1002 

under contract 1008 

Surveys, physical data, and gauges Sec. XIV 

Symbols on maps, drawings, etc. 402 d 

Teamsters with teams, bills 919 

Telegrams : 

Instructions regarding 205 

Towboat location 1108 d 

Snag-boat location 1110 

Telephone: 

Instructions regarding 206 

Towboat location 1108 d 

Snag-boat location 1110 

Telegraph and, stations 1110 

Temporary employment 605 

Tenders, steam, record of service 1102 

Time: 

Computation of 902 d 

Checks — 

Damaged or mutilated 917 

Employees 915 

Foremen's 916 

Rolls- 
Details 902 

Nonpayment 909 

Time checks issued 908 

Certificate of labor on Saturdays in July, August, and September 715 c 

on cash paid 911 b 

for lost property 1207 a 

Cash-paid rolls 914 a 

Towage costs, charged to work, etc 1102 e 

Towboats : 

Care of 1107 

Crews required 1107 

Direction of 1108 

Daily record of service 1102 

Reports 403 

Telegraph and telephone stations 1108 d, 1110 

Sounding river bars 1109 

Use of barge tickets 1103 

Tracings, etc., accompanying monthly reports 402, 402 b 

Transportation by mail, express, freight 1708-10 

on United States boats 1703 

Transfer: 

Emplovees 709 

Materials 1205 b, 1306 

Property 1204 

Unserviceable 1208 a 

Travel: 

Authority required 1501 

Expenses 1501 

Affidavits 1502 b, c 

On United States boats J 1703 



74 INDEX. 

Par. 

Trimonthly reports 402 

Tuberculosis, persons affected not to be employed 706 

Unclassified employees 603 

Unserviceable property 1208 

Use of property to save life, etc 112 

Vaccination of employees 705 

Violations of eight-hour law, reports of 711 

acts relating to political activity 721 

civil service 612 

Vouchers, signatures in blank to, prohibited 905 d 

for services, certificate of assistants 906 a 

payment of employees 913 

Weight allowed, official mail matter 1708 

Wife, payment to, for husband's wages not permitted 918 

Works of improvement: 

Name of 505 

Division of accounts 501 

Expense of 504 

Work on Sundays and holidays 712 

Zeros and approximate reading of gauges 1402 

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